{"id":122949,"date":"2025-11-05T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T10:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/122949\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T10:05:08","slug":"eu-countries-agree-deal-on-2040-climate-target-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/122949\/","title":{"rendered":"EU countries agree deal on 2040 climate target \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/european-union\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/european-union\/\">European Union<\/a> countries\u2019 climate ministers approved on Wednesday a 2040 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/climate-change\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/climate-change\/\">climate change<\/a> target to cut emissions by 90 per cent, but with flexibilities to weaken this aim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a public vote, ministers approved the  target, which would let countries buy foreign carbon credits to cover up to 5 per cent of the 90 per cent emissions-cutting goal, said Danish climate minister Lars Aagaard, who chaired the talks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">That would effectively weaken to 85 per cent the emissions cuts required from European industries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/environment\/climate-crisis\/2025\/11\/03\/cop30-whats-at-stake-for-ireland-and-the-wider-world\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cop30: What\u2019s at stake for Ireland and the wider world?Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The EU also agreed to consider the option, in future, to use international carbon credits to meet a further 5 per cent of the 2040 emissions reductions, Mr Aagaard said &#8211; potentially shaving another 5 per cent off their domestic target. &#8211; Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European Union countries\u2019 climate ministers approved on Wednesday a 2040 climate change target to cut emissions by 90&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2885,3025,246,5148,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-122949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-denmark","tag-environment","tag-european-union","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}