Italy must reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, transportation, construction, waste, and small industry by 43.7% by 2030 compared to 2005 levels. It is the effect of the regulation on national contributions to cut emissions, which confirms the proposal presented by the European Commission in 2021. On Wednesday, it was approved definitively by the European Parliament, pending the formal go-ahead from the EU Council. The regulation establishes binding annual reductions for greenhouse gas emissions not covered by the ETS, governing roughly 60% of total EU emissions. The EU has proposed increasing the overall reduction effort from 30 to 40% with the FitFor55 climate package. Neither the EU Council nor the European Parliament have changed the goal. The reduction constraint for Italy thus rises from 33% to 43.7%.
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