{"id":72721,"date":"2025-07-02T23:28:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T14:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/02\/eu-2040-target-proposal-analysis-france"},"modified":"2025-07-02T23:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T14:28:38","slug":"eus-proposed-2040-emissions-target-signals-its-retreat-as-leader-on-climate-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72721","title":{"rendered":"EU\u2019s proposed 2040 emissions target signals its retreat as leader on climate action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proposal faces the surprising opposition of France \u2013 despite most Europeans being firmly in favour of climate measures<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jul\/02\/europe-heatwave-weather-france-italy-germany-poland-live-news-updates\">Europe live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For most of the past 30 years, the EU has led the world on climate action. The bloc had the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2005\/feb\/03\/research.highereducation1\">deepest reductions in greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto protocol<\/a>; the first climate laws came from EU member states; the first emissions trading scheme, in 2005; and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/dec\/08\/the-paris-agreement-five-years-on-is-it-strong-enough-to-avert-climate-catastrophe\">Paris agreement in 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At times when other major countries \u2013 the US, Japan, Canada, China and India at various points \u2013 have stepped back, the EU has often stepped forward. There would be no Paris accord had the bloc not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2011\/dec\/11\/connie-hedegaard-durban-climate-talks\">won a key battle at the Durban climate summit in 2011<\/a> that paved the way.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/02\/eu-2040-target-proposal-analysis-france\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposal faces the surprising opposition of France \u2013 despite most Europeans being firmly in favour of climate measuresEurope live \u2013 latest updatesFor most of the past 30 years, the EU has led the world on climate action. The bloc had the deepest reduct&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4347,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,2331,3355,1244,65,221,530,526,564,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-climate-crisis","category-cop30","category-emmanuel-macron","category-environment","category-europe","category-european-union","category-france","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72722,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72721\/revisions\/72722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}