EU’s Juncker cautions against ramping up climate goals

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The outgoing Western european chief executive said on Tuesday the bloc should target meeting its 2030 existing targets before ramping up long-term climate ambitions.

Nine of this bloc’s 28 nations have needed the EU to get a target to move carbon neutral by 2050, that would mean steeper emissions cuts for industry by 2030 than existing commitments, using the 2019 Paris climate accord.

“We must focus and concentrate on 2030,” European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said with a Politico event. “To take care of new goals repeatedly doesn’t appear sensible. Let’s direct attention to delivering what we already agreed.”

Brussels is due this month to post its assessment of the member state’s home loan giants reach the bloc’s overall goal of cutting coffee emissions by 40% by 2030, and some countries likely fall short.

The European Parliament and also EU’s climate chief Miguel Arias Canete have in addition called for the bloc to every day net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, conscious of her country’s powerful car industry, has not backed the proposals to arrive for climate neutrality by 2050, but asked her climate cabinet for additional details on policy selections for doing so.