Fern: Energy Union Governance Regulation: Europe’s opportunity to set a negative emissions target
„This must include targets to generate negative emissions by restoring Europe’s forests, the cheapest and most readily available tool we have. Discussions in the European Parliament’s Environment and Energy Committees – which are leading the drafting of the Parliament’s position on the Regulation – have been promising. Parties from across the political spectrum including the centre-right European Peoples’ Party (EPP), the centrist Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), and the centre-left Socialists and Democrats party (S[&]D) have put forward language around a long-term target to increase the EU’s forests. „