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MEPs vote down key part of climate plan in 'bad day for European Parliament'

“Touche pas à ma planète - Hands off my planet,” reads this panel. But on 8 June 2022, The European Parliament voted to reject a reform of the EU carbon trading system, in a surprise setback to the bloc's Green Deal climate plan. RFI/Jan van der Made

The European Parliament voted Wednesday to reject a reform of the EU carbon trading system, in a surprise setback to the bloc's Green Deal climate plan.

The EU has vowed to cut greenhouse emissions by 55 percent by 2030, but Green and socialist MEPs judged the plan to expand carbon trading insufficiently ambitious.

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