Adidas, Puma, Aldi, Commerzbank demand EU policy overhaul after COP21

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See? We said yesterday that what was agreed in Paris at the UN’s climate talks would never be enough, and as if to prove it, 30 of Germany’s largest corporations and shippers have outlined plans to lobby national and EU authorities to introduce a raft of stricter regulations and more ambitious emissions reduction targets – chief amongst which is the state financing of new technologies that would lead to a 95% greenhouse gas emissions reduction by 2050.