The European Union wants to allow limited imports of carbon credits under a planned 90% emissions reduction goal for the next decade, in a bid to reduce the costs of its ambitious green shift and get member states on board.
The European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm, is poised to propose that certain high-quality credits from a new United Nations-supervised mechanism can account for 3% of the pollution cut by 2040, according to a draft document seen by Bloomberg News.