The EU is failing to reduce carbon emissions
The 28-nation EU effort failed to set an example in setting an ambitious new climate target ahead of the UN climate talks scheduled for September. The effort to cut carbon emissions in the world's largest economic bloc has met fierce opposition from Poland and the Czech Republic And Hungary, according to news agency "Reuters" news.
Efforts to reduce carbon emissions have been reduced to zero by 2050, but there has been no consensus on this.
During the four-hour talks, which diplomats described as "emotional," efforts to calm the fears of Central and Eastern European countries that their economies would be affected by dependence on nuclear energy and coal have failed.
EU leaders called on the EIB to increase climate funding and acknowledged the vast differences in energy production on the continent, but Poland remained firm.
Of today's session (AP)
"We need concrete things on the table," Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Moravitski said. "What size of the extra money can be allocated to Poland so that it does not end up falling into the trap of"
In an unusual step, though sending a strong message to the business sector, 24 leaders of the European Union chose to express their support for the ambitious goal of 2050 in a remarkable way on the sidelines of the summit's final communiqué. "For a large majority of Member States, the goal of eliminating carbon emissions must be achieved by 2050," the note says.
Although EU diplomats said they still believed the EU countries would eventually agree on this goal at a later stage, Thursday's summit was the last chance to do so before the September global climate talks, in which UN negotiators hope they will be able to secure pledges More to do more to reduce global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius.