BRUSSELS — France wants to delay agreement on the European Union’s next climate target, President Emmanuel Macron said after Thursday’s EU leaders’ summit.
The European Commission will unveil a contentious proposal to reduce the bloc’s greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040 next week.
The EU executive has long planned to derive the bloc’s 2035 climate goal from this legislative target. That goal is non-binding but is required from all countries under the Paris Agreement before this year’s United Nations summit in Belém, Brazil.
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As the U.N. has set a September deadline for the 2035 objective, the Commission expects governments to reach swift agreement on the 2040 target. But now some governments are rebelling.
