EU Decarbonization Plan For 2050 Collapses After Polish Veto {Sovereignty}

Forbes ^ | 20 June 2019 | Dave keating

[Cronos]

The 2015 Paris Agreement’s goal to limit global warming to under two degrees Celsius is in serious doubt following the collapse of European Union talks to set a target of completely decarbonizing Europe by 2050.

Today’s summit of the 28 national EU leaders in Brussels was the last chance for the bloc to up its ambition before a U.N. climate summit of all the parties to the Paris Agreement in New York in September. The hope was that setting a long-term target for the EU to meet the Paris Agreement goals would spur other countries to up their commitments at the New York summit – something essential for meeting the agreement’s goal to limit catastrophic global warming.

But the European Commission's proposal for a 2050 net zero target, which needed a unanimous vote, was vetoed by Poland – supported by Hungary, Estonia and the Czech Republic. They objected to the commitment to decarbonization by a specific date, preferring instead a more vague time commitment.

The summit’s final conclusions say that the EU will “ensure a transition to a climate neutral EU ‘in line with the Paris Agreement’” – removing a reference in the original draft to the specific target date of 2050. A footnote in the text notes that 24 of the EU’s 28 member countries supported the target, but unanimity could not be achieved.

[Cronos]

The EU needs unanimous approval for laws - so each country still has a lot of sovereignty

[Zathras]

Eastern Europe knows it for what it is.
Socialist Control run from Brussels.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Sto Lat! Polonia!

[Magnum44]

First sentence need to be re-written:

The 2015 Paris Agreement’s goal to tax the European people for living and breathing under the false guise of the global warming farce is in serious doubt following the collapse of European Union talks to set a target of completely decarbonizing Europe by 2050.

Decarbonization Plan. We apparently are infected with carbon units...

[taildragger]

"was vetoed by Poland – supported by Hungary, Estonia and the Czech Republic."

All members of the Three Seas Initiative if my memory is correct. Where is my TSI ETF or Mutual Fund? Gosh I love the cohones these countries have!

[HighSierra5]

Russia is just licking their chops waiting for the UPE,United Pu$$ys of Europe to disable themselves with the climate change hoax.

[Bonemaker]

Good on the Poles for telling these eurotrash dupeks to pound sand!😎

[dfwgator]

Doskonale!

[Wuli]

Note to Germany and Framce, the new bureaucratic bullies in Europe:

Your guys in Poland (socialists of whom many were just former communists who just changed their label) lost the national election in a landslide victory by the Conservatives, and you used EU institutions to attack that victorious Polish party for winning and for carrying out the mandates they were elected for - like house cleaning of the former communists still resting comfortably in the judiciary.

Poland has since recognized that not merely sovereignty but diversity of opinion is being thwarted by the imperium of the EU, and Poland wants nothing of it. It is not merely sovereignty that is threatened by the climate accord, but the Liberty of Poland to act in favor of its own prosperity and development, by its own policies.

[BobL]

“EU sources also said that after an evening when increasing funding offers were being given to Poland to convince them to come on board”

BRIBES. Glad to see that Poland held out.

[Grzegorz 246]

“goal to limit global warming to under two degrees Celsius is in serious doubt following the collapse of European Union talks to set a target of completely decarbonizing Europe by 2050.”

First of all, the whole CO2 emissions of the EU is just ~9% of the global total. So, leaving all the other issues aside, these fools, with their “goals”, just push more industry to Asia and thus increase the global emissions.