EP rejects watered-down Eickhout report

摘要

Meeting in plenary, on 5 July, the European Parliament rejected, as recommended by rapporteur Bas Eickhout (Greens-EFA, Netherlands), an own-initiative report on the European Commission's communication on 'Analysis of options to move beyond 20% greenhouse gas emission reductions and assessing the risk of carbon leakage'. The third paragraph of the resolution, as drafted by the rapporteur, calls for the Commission to "come forward, as soon as possible and before the end of 2011, with proposals to achieve a 25% internal greenhouse gas reduction by 2020 consistent with a cost-effective pathway to the 2050 objective as outlined in the 2050 road map, and to move to a 30% overall target for 2020". This wording confirmed the EP's 2010 position and supported the Commission's position of moving towards a 25% cut by 2020.