Climate: Coup de theater on a major European text to reduce CO2 emissions – The HuffPost

via Associated PressParliament has decided to reject a key text on the reform of the European carbon market.ENVIRONMENT – A brake on European climate policies. To everyone’s surprise, this Wednesday, June 8, MEPs voted on a series of amendments that undermine the ambition of carbon taxation at the EU’s borders. After the vote on these amendments, MEPs rejected to general surprise the reform of the European carbon market, deemed not ambitious enough by the Greens and the left. This vote will lead to a renegotiation of the text in the parliamentary committee. Pillar of the EU climate plan, the text provides for the expansion of the market for trading CO2 emission quotas, but also the abolition of free quotas for European industrialists. in exchange for a carbon tax at the EU’s borders. It was rejected to everyone’s surprise by 340 votes against (265 for, 34 abstentions), the Green and left MEPs castigating the proposals of the EPP (right) and Renew (centrists and liberals) on timing and goals. Wavering in Parliament after the series of amendments which completely destroyed the ambition of carbon taxation due to an alliance between the Right and part of the Liberals with the far right. The text is finally rejected. Sending the climate package back to committee. pic.twitter.com/UIwIwB7IAr— David Cormand🌻🇪🇺 (@DavidCormand) June 8, 2022According to MEP Tilly Metz, the EPP has succeeded, with its amendments supported by the far right, in “considerably lowering climate ambition ” of the text, emptying it of its substance and thus making the EU’s climate objectives more difficult to meet, for example by giving the most CO2-emitting industries rights to pollute for free until 2034 – and no longer 2032 as this was foreseen in the initial text. Votes #FitFor55#ETS: The EPP manages to considerably lower the climate ambition with the help of the far right (free allowances until 2034 instead of 2030!) and then blames the S&D and the Greens/ALE for voting against the file, with the far right 🤡 pic.twitter.com/LLznhNtFOH— Tilly Metz MEP (@MetzTilly) June 8, 2022However, as indicated by the MEP for insubordinate France Manon Aubry, a coalition led by green and socialist elected officials obtained u a referral of the text to Committee following its unraveling. “Shame on the Liberals who have joined forces with the far right to satisfy the lobbies”, denounces the MEP on Twitter. Turnaround: thanks to a coalition with the Greens and the Socialists, we obtained the referral to the Commission of the text to refuse this unacceptable climaticidal decline! Shame on the liberals who have joined forces with the extreme right to satisfy the lobbies. https://t.co/kICeIYYBYH— Manon Aubry (@ManonAubryFr) June 8, 2022In the other camp, it’s the opposite situation, since the EPP and Renew accuse environmentalists and socialists of having voted against the text . “What an awful day. It is a shame to see the far right vote with the Socialists and the Greens”, denounced Peter Liese (EPP), rapporteur of the rejected text, in a very electric atmosphere within the hemicycle of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. .See also on Le HuffPost: Élisabeth Borne facing the challenge of a still unclear “ecological planning”