{"id":219082,"date":"2025-06-27T16:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T16:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/219082\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T16:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T16:49:13","slug":"france-wants-to-delay-eus-next-climate-milestone-macron-confirms-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/219082\/","title":{"rendered":"France wants to delay EU\u2019s next climate milestone, Macron confirms \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13143281-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6827001\"  \/>After Thursday\u2019s European Council concluded in Brussels, Macron confirmed that he wants to deal with the 2035 target separately, and take more time to discuss 2040.\u00a0 | Christophe Petit Tesson\/EFE via EPA<\/p>\n<p>Macron doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s worth rushing the discussion, however.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great if we have [the 2040 target] for Bel\u00e9m, but that\u2019s not what\u2019s expected of us for Bel\u00e9m. It\u2019s the 2035 [target], not the European targets for 2040. So let\u2019s not overstretch ourselves,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo let\u2019s stop shooting ourselves in the foot,\u201d he added. \u201cIf we have it for Bel\u00e9m, super. If it\u2019s going to take longer, let\u2019s take more time to get it right.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Heated debate<\/p>\n<p>Macron also said that the 2040 target has to be \u201ccompatible with our competitiveness,\u201d and insisted that renewables and nuclear power should be treated the same under the bloc\u2019s future climate plans.\u00a0Countries need additional leeway to meet the goal, too, while more investment is also needed, he argued.<\/p>\n<p>Only with these aspects included in the Commission\u2019s 2040 \u201cpackage\u201d could he support the target, he suggested.<\/p>\n<p>Many governments have sent long lists of demands for agreeing to a 2040 target, and the Commission is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-cripple-next-climate-target-global-warming-2040-carbon-credits-emissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">already expected to grant countries<\/a> significant flexibility to meet the goal, in order to win over a majority of countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Thursday\u2019s European Council concluded in Brussels, Macron confirmed that he wants to deal with the 2035 target&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[64437,15856,18038,6641,71617,5898,5398,34,2000,299,36,4175,770],"class_list":{"0":"post-219082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-2040-climate-target","9":"tag-bart-de-wever","10":"tag-climate-neutrality","11":"tag-competitiveness","12":"tag-cop30","13":"tag-donald-tusk","14":"tag-emissions","15":"tag-emmanuel-macron","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-france","19":"tag-greenhouse-gas-emissions","20":"tag-poland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114756358447148683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}