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Just transition vital to EU zero emissions ambition

Dec 13 2019, 12:45    ETUC

Just transition vital to EU zero emissions ambition dmelli@etuc.org Fri, 13/12/2019 - 13:45 The ETUC is bitterly disappointed that EU has not adopted unanimously a carbon neutrality target for 2050. "Poland should have embraced the zero emissions target. It would have helped to convince workers and communities in Poland and elsewhere if the European Commission had included earlier this week a comprehensive and ambitious Just Transition strategy, with fulldetails of the mechanism and fund, with …

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