For decades, European leaders have walked into international environmental meetings with the swagger of the world’s self-proclaimed climate quarterback.
On Wednesday, that image will be shattered — along with European efforts to put pressure on major polluters like China — as the European Union takes a seat on the bench.
It’s an indignity entirely of the EU’s own making.
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Governments across the 27-member bloc have spent much of the year squabbling over a set of new climate targets required by European law and the 2015 Paris Agreement.
