Daly and Wallace push to limit carbon offsetting in new EU law
The EU should seek to further reduce pollution, not merely offset it, say independent MEPs who want net-zero target removed from a planned European climate law
The EU should adopt far stricter targets on climate change and force carbon-emitting industries to reduce more pollution rather than offset it, independent MEPs Mick Wallace and Clare Daly have said.
In a series of suggested amendments to the EU’s newly-planned climate law, the two politicians proposed removing the net-zero target, which would limit the use of offsetting. They also suggested the allocation of strict carbon budgets to economic sectors and putting limits on the ...
