{"id":226313,"date":"2025-06-30T09:48:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T09:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226313\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T09:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T09:48:27","slug":"brussels-to-stand-its-ground-on-90-emissions-cut-by-2040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226313\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels to stand its ground on 90% emissions cut by 2040"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>The European Commission is set to propose a target to slash greenhouse gas emissions to a mere tenth of the levels seen back in 1990 \u2013 but a leaked summary confirms it will offer significant leeway as a sweetener for reluctant EU members.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith reaching net-zero by mid-century set in law, the EU has yet to set out an interim target to mark the half-way point from the 2030 milestone of cutting emissions by 55% compared to the baseline year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA proposal expected on Wednesday says Europe should aim for the 90%, the minimum recommended by the EU&#8217;s climate advisory board, a draft summary seen by Euractiv suggests.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, from 2036 \u201chigh-quality international credits\u201d \u2013 linked to a UN-backed carbon certificate system \u2013 could be counted towards achieving the goal, according to the leaked text, which could still be changed before publication.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe EU&#8217;s domestic carbon cap-and-trade scheme, which is set to prohibit emissions from industry and power generators from 2039, would be supplemented with \u201cdomestic permanent removals\u201d \u2013 opening the door to including negative emissions in the scheme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith some sectors lagging behind on the EU&#8217;s decarbonisation pathway, \u201cenhanced flexibility\u201d should be created to \u201csupport the achievements of targets in a cost-effective way,\u201d the text runs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe new level of flexibility, which largely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/eet\/news\/europes-next-climate-target-may-already-have-been-agreed-in-berlin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mirrors a deal struck in Berlin<\/a> following talks with the EU\u2019s climate chief Wopke Hoekstra, is supposed to address concerns by EU countries who fear the economic impacts of enhanced climate action.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFrance\u2019s Emmanuel Macron, who told reporters the EU ought to avoid \u201coverburdening\u201d itself last week, has become the leader of the coalition of wary countries, supported by heavyweights like Poland and Italy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(rh\/om)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Commission is set to propose a target to slash greenhouse gas emissions to a mere tenth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-226313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114771689724911659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226313","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=226313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}