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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Isabella Kaminski

SHOCKING: Campaigners sue eu over grossly inadequate 2030 climate targets - You Need To See This

Smoke rises from a factory as a lorry loaded with cars crosses a bridge in Paris
Smoke rises from a factory as a lorry loaded with cars crosses a bridge in Paris. Photograph: Michel Euler/AP

The EU is being sued for failing to set ambitious climate targets in sectors that contribute more than half of the bloc’s total greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe and the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) argue that climate targets laid out for agriculture, waste, transport and small industry in the 27 EU member states until the end of the decade are not based on the best science and are therefore “grossly inadequate”.

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