European Economic
and Social Committee
Achieving climate neutrality
Key points
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) had already set out its views on the contents of the original proposal in its opinion on the European Climate Law, adopted on 15 July 2020, and decided not to draw up a new opinion on the subject, but to refer to the position it had taken in the above-mentioned document.
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