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The European Parliament and Council of the European Union will meet this month and next to adopt final positions on the upcoming European Climate Law that targets climate neutrality by 2050 and a 55% reduction in net greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
Aiming for a climate neutral future In January, last year, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen told attendees at the World Economic Forum 2020 that the European Union would do “whatever it takes” to the unlock investment, innovation and creativity needed to become climate neutral by 2050. The EU, Von der Leyen said, was on a mission to become the world’s first climate neutral continent. This goal was detailed in the EC’s European Green Deal – a programme containing a raft of world-reaching measures, guidelines and regulatory reforms aimed at shifting indu...
Industry has to closely consider the EU Single Market for Digital Services proposal, issued in December last year, and continue its fight on derogations and extensions on the upcoming microplastics restriction under REACH (Getty Images) The European Green Deal will be the biggest policy challenge for the cosmetics and personal care industry in 2021, but industry must also focus on upcoming change around microplastics and digital services, says the director-general of Cosmetics Europe. Industry will continue its fight to be recognised as ‘essential’ to consumer ...