When the vote figures from Tuesday night are added up, it turns out that the European Parliament generally chooses to follow what their environment committee proposed already in September.

This means that the line going forward will be to reduce emissions by 2030 by 60 percent, compared with the levels in 1990 - a substantial increase from the current target of 40 percent.

In addition, there will be target figures for 2040 as well, which has been lacking so far.

And when the whole of the EU in 2050 is to be climate-neutral, it must apply to each individual EU country and not just the EU as a whole.

- This is the happiest day I have had in Parliament, both for me, but also for the climate, says Swedish Member Jytte Guteland (S), who is responsible for the European Parliament's consideration of the proposal.

Even vote

Many of the European Parliament's Conservative Members and Members from Eastern countries instead preferred a 2030 level of 55%, which is also what the European Commission has proposed.

The 60-line still won in the even vote with 352 votes against 326.

However, the majority of Swedish members would have liked to have gone even further, to at least 65 percent.

- Basically, it is fantastic that it still landed at 60 and not at 55. But we must still have it very clear to us that this in itself is far from what is enough, says Pär Holmgren (MP).

Tough battle awaits

At the same time, what will be the end result is far from a given.

On Wednesday, Parliament will hold a final vote on the entire climate law, after which a tough battle awaits with EU member states, which in the Council of Ministers are expected to advocate lower figures and not as tough demands.

Parliament's percentage is in many ways a bargaining chip, designed to prevent more climate-change countries in Eastern Europe from pushing the demands too far.

- If we lock Parliament at 60%, it should not be possible to end up lower than the Commission's proposal (at 55%).

And we can only hope that it holds, says Fredrick Federley (C) - who feels quite confident about what the end result will be.

- It's going to be 55.