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EU leaders agree to reduce emissions after all-night talks The bust of French statesman Robert Schuman, one of the founders of the European Union, is seen while environmental activists launch a hot air balloon during a demonstration outside of an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. European Union leaders meet for a year-end summit that will address anything from climate, sanctions against Turkey to budget and virus recovery plans. Brexit will be discussed on the sidelines. (Source: AP Photo/Francisco Seco) By Associated Press | December 11, 2020 at 2:00 AM CST - Updated Dece...

296 views Marzena7/Pixabay The European Union is boosting its greenhouse gas reduction target to 55% from 1990 levels by 2030, prompting negotiators to take a victory lap but climate analysts to raise warnings about loopholes in a deal that still doesn’t go far enough, fast enough toward decarbonization. “Five years after the Paris agreement, the EU wants to be a leader in the fight against global warming,” The Associated Press writes. “Yet the bloc’s heads of state and government were unable to agree on the new target the last time they met in October, mainly because of financial c...

EU leaders agree to reduce emissions after all-night talks The bust of French statesman Robert Schuman, one of the founders of the European Union, is seen while environmental activists launch a hot air balloon during a demonstration outside of an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. European Union leaders meet for a year-end summit that will address anything from climate, sanctions against Turkey to budget and virus recovery plans. Brexit will be discussed on the sidelines. (Source: AP Photo/Francisco Seco) By Associated Press | December 11, 2020 at 3:00 AM EST - Updated Dece...

11 Dec 2020 BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders reached a hard-fought deal Friday to cut the bloc’s net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 per cent by the end of the decade compared with 1990 levels, avoiding a hugely embarrassing deadlock ahead of a U.N. climate meeting this weekend. Following night-long discussions at their two-day summit in Brussels, the 27 member states approved the EU executive commission’s proposal to toughen the bloc’s intermediate target on the way to climate neutrality by mid-century, after a group of reluctant, coal-reliant countries finally agreed t...

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