by Ashira Morris (Our Daily Planet) This week, European Union policymakers agreed to enshrine the bloc’s short- and long-term climate commitments. The European Climate Law takes the EU’s goals of reducing net emissions by 55% by 2030 and hitting climate neutrality by 2050 and makes them “legally binding and irreversible,” as German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze put it in Politico EU. Although it still needs to be officially approved by the European Parliament and member countries. While the deal counts carbon removal through activities like growing forests that absorb CO2, there’s a limit on how much countries can rely on these carbon sinks. The focus is on tackling the source problem by cutting emissions.