{"id":245397,"date":"2025-11-05T13:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/245397\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T13:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:54:08","slug":"eu-countries-agree-weakened-2040-climate-goal-and-target-for-cop30-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/245397\/","title":{"rendered":"EU countries agree weakened 2040 climate goal and target for COP30\u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That plan is\u00a0not legally\u00a0binding but sets the direction of EU climate policy for the coming five years. The range is similar to an <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/205128\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">informal statement<\/a> that the EU presented at a climate summit in New York in September.<\/p>\n<p>Ministers also adopted a legally-binding target for cutting emissions in the EU by 85 percent by\u00a02040.\u00a0The deal mandates that\u00a0another\u00a05\u00a0percent reduction be achieved by outsourcing pollution cuts abroad through the purchase of international carbon credits.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, governments would be allowed to use credits to outsource another 5 percentage points of their national emissions reduction goals.<\/p>\n<p>Ministers also backed\u00a0a\u00a0wide-ranging review clause\u00a0that\u00a0allows\u00a0the EU to adjust its 2040 target in the future if climate policy proves to have negative\u00a0impacts on\u00a0the EU\u2019s\u00a0economy. The deal also foresees a one-year delay to the implementation of the EU&#8217;s new carbon market for heating and car emissions, which is set to start in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland did not support the 2040 deal, while Bulgaria and Belgium abstained. The rest of the EU27 countries backed it.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers in the European Parliament\u00a0now have to agree on their own position on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/bills\/739972\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2040 climate target<\/a> and negotiate with the Council of the EU before the target becomes law.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zia Weise contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That plan is\u00a0not legally\u00a0binding but sets the direction of EU climate policy for the coming five years. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[65817,556,65818,77904,6230,102782,65662,3602,2360,102783,1397,102784,101676,15751,65105,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-245397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-2040-climate-target","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-diplomacy","tag-climate-law","tag-competitiveness","tag-council-presidency","tag-cutting-emissions","tag-denmark","tag-emissions","tag-emissions-reduction-target","tag-environment","tag-eu-council-presidency","tag-european-climate-law","tag-forestry","tag-paris-climate-agreement","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}