EU Will Increase Target for Carbon Cuts by 2030, Timmermans Says

The European Union will increase its targets for reducing carbon emissions by 2030, Frans Timmermans, the European Commission’s climate chief, told the COP27 summit in Egypt.

The bloc will update its nationally determined contribution, the document each party at the summit must submit to set out plans for battling global warming, to promise emissions will fall by 57% by the end of the decade from levels in 1990, Timmermans said. That’s an increase from a previous target of 55%.