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Title: EU Countries Delay Deal on New Climate Goal, Diplomats Say

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/12/2025...

An anonymous reader shares a report: European Union countries have 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.
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.

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