European Union leaders held back March 22 from endorsing a goal to have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
The bloc should have “an ambitious long-term strategy by 2020 striving for climate neutrality in line with the Paris Agreement,” the EU’s leaders said in a short communique issued after a summit in Brussels, but they didn’t set a specific date for achieving the goal.
Leaders were “univocal” that climate change needed to be tackled, but further work will be done on the EU’s long-term climate strategy before they discuss it again at a summit in June, Donald Tusk, president of ...