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EC Adopts Suggestions for Climate Policies, Bolstering Environmental Economy  


Thu 15 Jul 2021 | 11:32 AM
Ahmed Moamar

The European Commission (EC) adopted, hours ago, a package of new suggestions related to policies of climate, energy, land, transportation, and taxes in order to reduce gases of global heating by 55% at least by 2033 compared with levels of 1990.

The commission issued today, Thursday, a statement published on its official website.

The statement stressed that decreasing emissions over the years to come is an important matter for Europe to make it the first neutral continent in climate by 2050.

The commission also seeks to carry out the European Green Deal (EGD).

Through today’s suggestions, the commission presents the legislative tools to achieve the consented targets in the European Law of Climate to convert the European economy and society basically to conform with just, greener and flourishing future.

Its statement added that adaptation of today’s suggestions enables the European countries to diminish the emission of gases of global heating throughout the next decade.

These suggestions put together the application of the trade of emissions to new sectors, sustaining energy through introducing less-emitting means of transportation to support the infrastructure, increase the use of renewable energy, and conform the tax policies with targets of the European Green Deal.

The European Commission also plans to activate measurements to prevent the leaking of carbon gases over the next period.

The European countries should work together to coordinate applicable policies to fund the climate issues in the members of the European Union (EU).

A portion of revenues of the new system of land transportation and building in the EU will be allotted to treat the forecast social effect of the low-income households, small enterprises, and users of transportation means.

The statement of the commission revealed that producing energy and using it represent 75% of emissions in the EU so accelerating the conversion to a greener energy system is an important matter.

The newly adopted policies point out that cars ran by petrol or diesel will not be marketed in the EU by 2035.