{"id":352798,"date":"2025-11-03T14:35:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/352798\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:35:30","slug":"eu-countries-poised-to-demand-weaker-climate-target-if-forests-fail-to-absorb-co2-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/352798\/","title":{"rendered":"EU countries poised to demand weaker climate target if forests fail to absorb CO2 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bloc&#8217;s forest carbon sink <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eea.europa.eu\/en\/newsroom\/news\/europes-land-carbon-sink-declines-but-its-potential-stays-high\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is in decline<\/a> due to climate impacts such as wildfires but also over-harvesting of wood. As the bloc&#8217;s climate targets rely in part on this absorption capacity, many governments worry that industry and households will have to cut emissions faster to make up for the shortfall.<\/p>\n<p>The new clause is a response to a French <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/207615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposal issued this week<\/a> suggesting that the EU shave 3 percentage points off the planned 2040 goal if both natural sinks and carbon removal technologies fail to deliver the expected reductions.<\/p>\n<p>The draft text circulated on Sunday by Denmark, which chairs the discussions, does not go quite as far, referring only to natural sinks and avoiding giving a specific figure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the Commission finds that the estimated level of net natural<strong> <\/strong>removals for 2040 is significantly diverging from what would be required to achieve the 2040 intermediate target &#8230; the Commission shall propose &#8230; if necessary an adjustment of the 2040 intermediate target corresponding to and within the limits of the possible shortfalls,&#8221; the draft reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bloc&#8217;s forest carbon sink is in decline due to climate impacts such as wildfires but also over-harvesting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":352799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[23194,14992,23197,23198,746,23199,156,3195,172594,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-352798","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-carbon-removal","10":"tag-co2","11":"tag-emissions","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-european-climate-law","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-industry","16":"tag-natural-sinks","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115486269316182347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}