( June 30, 2025, 10:45 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Flexibilities in the EU's climate goals for 2040 represent “a back door to less climate action,” an Austrian Green lawmaker has said. The expected 90 percent net emission reduction target, to be proposed by the European Commission on Wednesday, is already “the bare minimum,” Lena Schilling argued. She criticized early leaks of the proposal, which introduces “loopholes.” The contested flexibilities would allow EU countries to use international carbon credits to fund emissions-reduction projects abroad, while counting the resulting CO2 cuts toward its domestic 2040 climate goal.Full statement follows:...
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