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EU states agree broad UN emissions target avoiding 'embarrassment'
The EU agreed on a broad emissions-cutting target on Thursday to bring to a UN conference in Brazil, sparing the bloc potential diplomatic embarrassment but risking its reputation as a climate champion.
In a diplomacy exercise, European environment ministers agree on a joint statement in which "the EU is expected to present before COP30 an emission reduction target of between 66.25% and 72.5%" by 2035.
In view of the ongoing dispute over the European climate targets for the coming decades, the Environment Ministers of the 27 EU countries agreed an emergency solution for the UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil in November. According to several diplomats in Brussels, they agreed on Thursday that the UN would reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 66.25 [...]
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