Summary
The European Parliament adopts a plan to include greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use, land use change, and forestry into the EU's 2030 climate targets. 10 19.06.2018
Other
environment
european union
agriculture, forestry and fisheries
Key points
- Integration of land use and forestry management within the EU's 2030 climate targets.
- Focus on measuring both the emissions produced by land use changes and the carbon removed from the atmosphere by forests and soil.
- Updating existing rules for monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas information to ensure higher accuracy.
- Alignment of land-based environmental activities with the broader European climate and energy strategy.
Documents (PDFs)
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use, land use change and forestry into the 2030 climate and energy framework and amending Regulation No 525/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council on a mechanism for monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions and other information relevant to climate change
Inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use, land use change and forestry into the 2030 climate and energy framework ***I
Inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use, land use change and forestry into the 2030 climate and energy framework ***I
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