Mr. Wopke Hoekstra the time for #ClimateAction is now.
The EU’s climate ambition sets the tone globally. Watering down the #2040Target with "flexibilities" (aka loopholes👎) would send the wrong message and cost the EU far more in the long term 🫰 https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-exploring-weaker-2040-climate-goal-90-greenhouse-gas-cut-wopke-hoekstra/
The EU’s climate ambition sets the tone globally. Watering down the #2040Target with "flexibilities" (aka loopholes👎) would send the wrong message and cost the EU far more in the long term 🫰 https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-exploring-weaker-2040-climate-goal-90-greenhouse-gas-cut-wopke-hoekstra/
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📈A “non-linear” emissions path, which would bank on steeper reductions in the final years before 2040, delaying action and leading to higher total emissions
🚨Allowing for reductions to be purchased from other countries, thereby giving up on achieving EU climate neutrality domestically