Europe, The First Fully Climate-neutral Continent – Wish Or Necessity?

ACG International's Managing Partner, Edith Nordmann, was approached by Het Financiële Dagblad (FD) to write a leading article in today's supplement on the European Green Deal.

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Europe, the first fully climate-neutral continent – wish or necessity?

No one has failed to notice that at your coffee-to-go you have to pay extra for the disposable cup for which you did not have to pay anything extra until 1 July last. This extra fee is intended to discourage consumers from using disposable packaging that contains plastic. The measure, an implementation of the European Single-use plastic directive (SUP directive), should help the green European transition. It should achieve a reduction in plastic litter and is one of the measures from the European Green Deal, a roadmap by the European Commission to make the European Union climate neutral by 2050.