EU lays out trillion-euro 'Green Deal'

Strasbourg, France (AFP) Jan 14, 2020

Going green can be a costly business, as the EU's executive body made clear on Tuesday when it launched a one-trillion-euro ($1.1-trillion) plan to finance its goal of making the bloc carbon neutral by 2050. That figure, a 10-year investment to be sourced from leveraged public and private funds, is part of a European "Green Deal" - an ambitious rethinking of the economy, transport and energ