Europe Rolls Out Vision for a Carbonless Future,
This blue print was laid out on Wednesday and focuses on a sharply decarbonized future over the next nine years, marking the start of what promises to be a difficult and bruising two-year negotiation among industry, 27 countries and the European Parliament.
Nabaasa Innocent 
Europe Rolls Out Vision for a Carbonless Future,
The photo shows an ambitious blueprint aimed at reducing emissions to 55 percent by 2030 .
This ambition promises tough haggling among 27 states, industry and the European Parliament.
This blue print was laid out on Wednesday and focuses on a sharply decarbonized future over the next nine years, marking the start of what promises to be a difficult and bruising two-year negotiation among industry, 27 countries and the European Parliament.
The political importance of the effort, pushed by the European Commission, the E.U.’s bureaucracy, is without doubt. It puts Brussels in the forefront of the world’s efforts to decarbonize and reach the goal of a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. To force the issue, Brussels has committed to reducing its emissions of greenhouse gases 55 percent by 2030 compared with 1990 levels.
The European Union produces only about 8 percent of global carbon emissions. But it sees itself as an important regulatory power for the world and hopes to set an example, invent new technologies that it can sell and provide new global standards that can lead to a carbon-neutral economy.
