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€350m in green financing through European Innovation Council also planned
The European Commission has pressed on with its green agenda, presenting new proposals intended to help the bloc become carbon-neutral by 2050.
“We are acting today to make the EU the world’s first climate neutral continent by 2050,” Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on 4 March, unveiling a proposal to cement the target in law.