Big business urges EU to adopt target to cut emissions 'at least 90 per cent' by 2040

Cecilia Keating
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Salesforce, Coca Cola, and Unilever among firms to advocate for bloc to establish more stretching climate target so as to give business confidence to invest in net zero transition

A group of leading global corporates has today urged the European Union to establish a stretching climate target for 2040, arguing the bloc should set a new goal to cut net greenhouse emissions by at least...

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