{"id":283095,"date":"2025-11-10T11:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/283095\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T11:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:19:12","slug":"trumps-cop30-snub-thrusts-europe-into-a-role-its-not-ready-for-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/283095\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s COP30 snub thrusts Europe into a role it\u2019s not ready for \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some argue this is the EU stepping up. \u201cWe used to have the U.S. acting as the bad cop and the EU acting as the good cop, so we as the EU have to learn to be both bad and good cop,\u201d said a second EU negotiator. \u201cSo politicians may show outrage to push China, and on the diplomatic level we can work with China in making the COP a success.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Others criticized Hoekstra\u2019s response. \u201cI think it\u2019s counterproductive,\u201d said Cecilia Trasi, a policy advisor at the Italian ECCO think tank. During her recent trip to China, \u201cthe common refrain,\u201d including in conversations with officials, \u201cwas the EU is hypocritical, and it\u2019s not doing enough to acknowledge the progress that China has made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New targets for 2035, required from every Paris Agreement signatory, are central to this year\u2019s climate conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The EU missed the United Nations\u2019 September deadline for the targets as its governments were unable to agree. The bloc eventually decided on an emissions cut of between 66.3 percent and 72.5 percent below 1990 levels \u2014 instead of the fixed 72.5 percent target the Commission had signaled although never clearly stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2244969422-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7470855\"  \/>New targets for 2035, required from every Paris Agreement signatory, are central to this year\u2019s climate conference.\u00a0|  COP 30 Press Office\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Under pressure from surging far-right parties and its high-polluting manufacturing industry, the EU has also embarked on a sweeping effort to deregulate and revise green policies, weakening parts of the legislative web designed to achieve its climate targets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed in Beijing. At a meeting between high-level EU and Chinese climate officials in July, the Chinese chewed out their European counterparts for what they saw as the bloc backtracking on climate efforts, according to a person in the room.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some argue this is the EU stepping up. \u201cWe used to have the U.S. acting as the bad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,941,144,4253,98180,20356,12,5040,1871,1872,12418,7263,5476,7380,3,20200,759,447,21,19,22,20,25,24,75576],"class_list":["post-283095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-brazil","tag-china","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-diplomacy","tag-cop30","tag-donald-trump","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-emissions","tag-energy","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-industry","tag-manufacturing","tag-negotiations","tag-news","tag-pollution","tag-tariffs","tag-trade","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wopke-hoekstra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283095","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=283095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}