The statement as drafted by Denmark proposes a temporary emissions-cutting target of between 66.3 percent and 72.5 percent below 1990 levels by 2035. EU countries would have to agree on a definitive target at a later date.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While too late for the U.N. deadline, this approach gives Denmark another chance to secure support for the more ambitious target. To achieve that, they will have to find a landing ground among sharply divergent views held by governments.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The EU had intended to derive a 2035 goal of 72.5 percent from a new 2040 milestone<\/a> that is currently being negotiated. That plan was derailed by disagreements<\/a> over the 2040 legislation. On Friday, Denmark postponed<\/a> a vote scheduled for this week after major countries<\/a> blocked progress.\u00a0<\/p>\n Some countries, such as Poland, have advocated for the EU to submit the range as the formal target, which would not be unusual:\u00a0Brazil, the host of this year\u2019s COP30 climate summit, has done so.\u00a0<\/p>\n But for the EU, it would nevertheless represent a weaker goal, as it would see the EU effectively commit to a 66.3 percent target, while leaving open the possibility for further improvement.\u00a0<\/p>\n For that reason, another group of countries is fiercely opposed to disconnecting the 2035 target from the 2040 goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n Just when the EU will submit its finalized plan to the U.N. remains unclear. The Danish statement insists that the bloc will do so before COP30 starts in early November.\u00a0<\/p>\n EU countries agreed last week to host a debate among national leaders, scheduled for Oct. 23, before agreeing on a 2040 target. That will leave just two weeks to then strike a deal on both goals ahead of the summit in Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The statement as drafted by Denmark proposes a temporary emissions-cutting target of between 66.3 percent and 72.5 percent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[98179,98180,20356,192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-161522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-2040-climate-target","9":"tag-climate-diplomacy","10":"tag-cop30","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}