EU commits to being climate neutral by 2050, but without Poland | CBC News
The Czech Republic and Hungary eventually dropped their resistance after winning a guarantee that nuclear energy would be recognized as a way for EU states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But Poland remained against.
Poland will be reaching climate neutrality at its own pace.
– Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki
The tussle came a day after Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen, the new head of the bloc’s executive European Commission, proposed a 100-billion-euro ($147 billion Cdn) investment plan for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, declaring it Europe’s “man on the moon moment.”
With fires, floods and droughts ruining millions of lives around the world, the European Union’s new push comes as popular protest demanding more action to fight climate change spreads around the bloc.