The European Parliament has sharply raised its emission reduction targets, and low-carbon pulp molding has regained business opportunities.

On 6 October 2020, the European Parliament voted by 352 votes to 326, with 18 abstentions, to increase greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 (compared to 1990) from the current 40% reduction target to 60% by increasing the EU's climate target for 2030. The European Parliament also rejected the Commission's proposal to rely on carbon sinks such as forests and grasslands to achieve the 2030 climate target, and rejected the inclusion of carbon reduction projects in developing countries in the EU's climate target, saying that the EU's 2030 target should only rely on EU domestic emission reduction.

The text of the bill will now be forwarded to the Council of Ministers of the 27 EU member states for final approval before December. The European Commission put forward the latest 2030 target in September, saying that a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is "achievable" and "beneficial" for the EU economy ". The European Commission also included carbon removals from agriculture, land use and forestry in the EU's latest 2030 climate targets, saying that this is in line with the standards of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

MPs from the center-right European People's Party (EPP) said the 60 per cent target was "too ambitious" and called on EU member states to back the Commission's initial proposal for a 55 per cent cut, saying it was "ambitious and realistically feasible".

Environmentalists hailed the vote as a victory in the fight against climate change. WWF said: "The position taken by the European Parliament is much more progressive than the 55% 'net' proposal put forward by the European Commission and is commendable." However, they believe that the goal of reducing emissions by 60% by 2030 is still not in line with the Paris Agreement's 1.5-2°C target. WWF and other NGOs have been calling for the EU to cut emissions by at least 65 percent by 2030 and set a separate carbon sink reduction target.

In addition, in recent years, straw burning has emitted a large amount of air pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and inhalable particulate matter, which has aggravated urban smog. Using straw as raw material to make plant fiber molding related products can effectively solve the problem of straw open burning.

The use of 1 ton of straw fiber can directly reduce carbon emissions by more than 3 tons. At present, there are 0.8 billion tons of straw in rural areas of the country each year, while China consumes more than 0.1 billion tons of plant fiber each year. The proportion of straw fibrosis in the comprehensive utilization of straw is still small, but its development potential is immeasurable.