It’s game over for Europe’s climate clout – POLITICO https://share.google/2DYgUjYsyjjVCAKm4
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Governments across the 27-member bloc have spent much of the year squabbling over a set of new climate targets required by European law and the 2015 Paris Agreement.
U.N. deadlines have been ignored.
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Talks among EU diplomats fell apart earlier this month after they failed to gain approval for a goal proposed by the European Commission to cut emissions by 90 percent by 2040. That, in turn, meant that EU countries were unable to agree on the intermediate 2035 target required by the U.N. under the Paris Agreement.
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Emmanuel Macron once posed as the counterweight to Donald Trump’s trashing of the Paris Agreement. But this year the French president has waged a behind-the-scenes campaign to delay the new climate goals.
Electoral math has also fed resistance in Poland and Czechia.
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“One of the things that we recognize is China has a lot to benefit from keeping the Paris Agreement alive,” said Seid, the ambassador from Palau.
