BRUSSELS — The European Commission will not unveil its long-awaited proposal to enshrine into law the European Union’s new 2040 climate target Wednesday, a spokesperson told POLITICO on Tuesday.
A senior official told POLITICO over the weekend that the commission had agreed to publish an amendment to the bloc’s climate law this week alongside a strategy to boost and decarbonize the EU’s struggling manufacturing industries.
The 2040 target “will be presented soon, but not as part of tomorrow’s Clean Industrial Deal package,” said commission spokesperson Anna-Kaisa Itkonen, adding that there was no specific date yet.
The amendment will formalize last year’s Commission recommendation to cut emissions by 90 percent by 2040, kicking off the EU’s legislative process involving national governments and the European Parliament.
