EU launches plan to tackle climate change, aims to reduce carbon emissions in a decade

EU policymakers on Wednesday unveiled their most ambitious plan to tackle climate change. The union's goal behind this plan is to take concrete action on the Green Goals in the decade and set an example for other large economies of the world.

The European Commission, the EU's executive body, painstakingly detailed how the bloc's 27 countries could meet their collective goal of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent from 1990 levels by 2030. It is being seen as a step towards net zero emissions by 2050. This would mean increasing the cost of carbon emissions for heating, transportation and construction. As well as implementing taxes on high-carbon aviation fuels and shipping fuels, and charging importers across the border for carbon emitted in making products such as cement, steel.

EU climate policy chief Frans Timmermann told a news conference that this is a difficult step, but it is also our obligation, because if we abandon our obligation to help humanity and stay within limits, we Not only will we fail ourselves, but we will also fail our children and our grandchildren. He said that the cost of failure would be that in the future there would be a war on water and food. Fit for 55, the measures would require approval by member states and the European Parliament, a process that could take up to two years.

EU policymakers seek to balance industrial reforms with the need to protect the economy and promote social justice. For this, they will have to face intense lobbying from traders. Some environmental campaigners said that the commission is very cautious about this plan of the Sangh. "Celebrating these policies is like a high jumper claiming a medal for running under the bar," Greenpeace EU director Jorgo Ris said in a statement. This whole package is based on a goal that is very short and has no basis in science. It will not stop the destruction of our planet's life-support systems.