Eastern European states block bid for EU climate change 2050 decarbonisation target

Three central and eastern European countries blocked a new EU climate change target on Thursday night, undermining global action to cut carbon emissions.

The target was not included in the EU's strategic agenda for the next five years.

EU leaders had hoped to commit all the union’s member states to going carbon neutral by 2050 at a summit in Brussels, but in the end only 25 out of 28 countries were on-board.

Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic all refused to support writing the target into the EU’s strategic programme for 2019-24. The plan was supported by Brussels and had gathered significant momentum in recent weeks.

Read the story from the Independent by Jon Stone - “Eastern European states block bid for EU climate change 2050 decarbonisation target.”