EU Countries Delay Deal on New Climate Goal, Diplomats Say (reuters.com)
(Friday September 12, 2025 @05:50PM (msmash)
from the how-about-that dept.)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/12/2025228/eu-countries-delay-deal-on-new-climate-goal-diplomats-say
- Source link: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/eu-countries-delay-deal-new-climate-goal-diplomats-say-2025-09-12/
An anonymous reader shares a report:
> European Union countries have [1]shelved plans to approve a new climate change target next week, after pushback from governments including France and Germany over plans to quickly land a deal, three EU diplomats told Reuters on Friday. Countries are discussing a legally-binding target to cut net EU greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040, from 1990 levels - with a share of this covered by buying foreign carbon credits.
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> The European Commission has said this would offer investors certainty and keep Europe on track for net zero emissions by 2050. Climate change has made Europe the world's fastest-warming continent, unleashing deadly heatwaves and record-breaking wildfires. But EU governments are divided over how ambitious to be in tackling global warming, as governments also try to increase defence spending and support struggling industries.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/eu-countries-delay-deal-new-climate-goal-diplomats-say-2025-09-12/
> European Union countries have [1]shelved plans to approve a new climate change target next week, after pushback from governments including France and Germany over plans to quickly land a deal, three EU diplomats told Reuters on Friday. Countries are discussing a legally-binding target to cut net EU greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040, from 1990 levels - with a share of this covered by buying foreign carbon credits.
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> The European Commission has said this would offer investors certainty and keep Europe on track for net zero emissions by 2050. Climate change has made Europe the world's fastest-warming continent, unleashing deadly heatwaves and record-breaking wildfires. But EU governments are divided over how ambitious to be in tackling global warming, as governments also try to increase defence spending and support struggling industries.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/eu-countries-delay-deal-new-climate-goal-diplomats-say-2025-09-12/
Oh sure... (Score:2)
by guygo ( 894298 )
take your time... no hurry.
Re: (Score:2)
by test321 ( 8891681 )
Delayed signature to next month instead of next week. Meh.
The EU can't live within it's means (Score:2)
France is having huge problems trying to maintain it's level of largess yet not go bankrupt. Many EU countries are like spoiled rich kids that grew up used to doing anything they want in luxury but now has to work a minimum wage job. They cannot maintain their lifestyle so they go into debt and act like reducing spending would decimate the poor. Instead, they decimate their spending budget and are constantly on their back foot.
Please don't respond with "but the US...". Yes, we know. It's just as bad
Re: (Score:1)
> France is having huge problems trying to maintain it's level of largess yet not go bankrupt.
That can happen when a foreign nation that was providing energy on the cheap to the region decides to cut off the supply and then invades a close neighbor. Maybe "close" is a bit of a stretch but if I'm looking at my desktop globe here correctly the distance from France to Ukraine is about the distance from DC to Tampa. It's a long day driving but if leaving at sunrise from the border of Ukraine there's a good chance on getting to France by sunset, assuming this and that. More importantly that's like 2 h