According to a draft negotiating document for the summit, EU leaders are expected to call for a more \u201cpragmatic\u201d transition and \u201cto ensure Europe\u2019s industrial renewal and decarbonisation in a technologically neutral manner\u201d.<\/p>\n
Technology neutrality has become a byword for greater flexibility around the use of nuclear power and carbon-neutral fuels.<\/p>\n
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Bas Eickhout, leader of the Greens in the European parliament, says Europe\u2019s lack of ambition was influencing other countries \u00a9 Kenzo Tribouillard\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
One EU official said they were expecting a \u201ccandid discussion\u201d on Thursday and acknowledged that member states had \u201cdifferent positions\u201d on climate legislation.<\/p>\n
Scandinavian countries, alongside the Netherlands and Ireland, have been among those calling for the EU to uphold its climate ambitions, while eastern European countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic are pushing the commission to loosen rules.<\/p>\n
Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico has said that he will not agree to the bloc\u2019s next round of sanctions on Russia at Thursday\u2019s summit unless the commission makes efforts to reduce energy prices.<\/p>\n
Bas Eickhout, leader of the Greens in the European parliament, said that the summit was likely to be \u201cthe heaviest attack on the Green Deal\u201d since it was introduced in 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe lack of ambition of Europe is also influencing the lack of ambition of other countries\u201d such as China ahead of the UN\u2019s COP30 climate conference in November, he said.<\/p>\n
In a letter to heads of government on Monday, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen promised to address concerns over the cost of the bloc\u2019s emissions trading system for industry, and to ease the introduction of a new carbon pricing scheme for houses and road transport.<\/p>\n
She also said that the commission would look at making changes to targets for the bloc\u2019s carbon sinks, which are causing concern in Scandinavia and Ireland.<\/p>\n
The commission on Tuesday also set out ways that member states could use state aid and EU funding to cut energy costs.<\/p>\n
It said that changes to the EU\u2019s deforestation law \u2014 which prohibits the sale in the bloc of commodities like rubber, palm oil and cocoa grown on deforested land \u2014 were to solve problems with a new IT platform underpinning the legislation.<\/p>\n
But Brussels has also come under heavy pressure from conservative lawmakers and trading partners such as Indonesia, Brazil and the US to make changes to the law.<\/p>\n
Once the changes are agreed, micro and small producers such as farmers and foresters will only have to make a one-off registration in the IT system if they are not already on an EU or national database.<\/p>\n
It will also ease requirements for companies making products from imported commodities within the EU and delay the application of the law to smallholders for a year.<\/p>\n
Indonesia and Malaysia have been among the most vocal about the impact on small palm oil producers, but the changes will only ease requirements for producers in countries that are considered at \u201clow risk\u201d of deforestation, such as EU member states, the UK and US.<\/p>\n
European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde on Tuesday lashed out against \u201ca growing denial of the climate crisis and a backlash against green initiatives\u201d.<\/p>\n
At a conference held by the Norwegian central bank in Oslo, she stressed that \u201cthe climate reality has not changed\u201d and urged European governments to \u201cact more decisively\u201d to grow investment into green energy. <\/p>\n
That approach was the \u201conly viable path for Europe\u201d, Lagarde said.<\/p>\n
Additional reporting by Olaf Storbeck in Frankfurt and Andy Bounds in Strasbourg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-90519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}