Amid fierce criticism from environmental activists, the European Commission is unveiling plans Wednesday for its first ever climate law the basis of the European Union's Green Deal aimed at making the 27-country bloc climate neutral by 2050.
With its proposals, the EU's executive arm wants to make its ambition of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to zero by mid-century irreversible, and legally-binding for all member states.
According to a leaked draft of the proposals establishing the 2050 goal, the European Commission is proposing a mechanism for regularly raising the EU's emissions reduction target over the next three decades, but there is no plan for an increase of the bloc's overall emissions goal for 2030.
