Green team
Ursula von der Leyen (center), the European Commission president, and Frans Timmermans, the commission’s executive vice-president (left), lead a news conference on the European Union’s green agenda in Brussels on Wednesday. The EU’s executive unveiled a road map for realizing the bloc’s target of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 percent from 1990 levels by 2030 and to become climate-neutral by 2050.