Although she used the word ‘environment’ only once in her 30-page manifesto, Ursula von der Leyen’s re-election as European Commission president means the EU executive is now committed to a climate target that translates into a sevenfold reduction in greenhouse gas output. At the centre of Von der Leyen’s ‘political guidelines’ for the next Commission is a Clean Industrial Deal, to be presented within 100 days of taking office in the autumn, that promises to be as much a flagship policy of her second mandate as the European Green Deal has been of her first. Faustine Bas-Defossez, a director at…