{"id":728,"date":"2014-10-27T20:58:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=728"},"modified":"2014-10-27T20:58:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:58:10","slug":"eu-weakens-climate-deal-to-keep-uk-poland-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"EU Weakens Climate Deal To Keep UK, Poland On Board"},"content":{"rendered":"

EU Weakens Climate Deal To Keep UK, Poland On Board<\/a>.<\/p>\n

European Union leaders have agreed to a landmark deal to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next 15 years.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0agreement<\/a>, reached Oct. 24, calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. European Council chair Herman Van Rompuy\u00a0called the deal<\/a>\u00a0the \u201cworld\u2019s most ambitious, cost-effective, fair climate energy policy (ever) agreed.\u201d<\/p>\n

It also sets a target for the 28-member bloc to obtain 27 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2030, as well as make a 27 percent improvement in energy efficiency over a business-as-usual scenario. EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0the agreement puts the EU in the \u201cdriving seat\u201d for next year\u2019s international climate negotiations in Paris.<\/p>\n

While the key targets sound ambitious, the specifics were watered down in order to gain the approval of several countries that were dragging their feet. In particular, the United Kingdom was not keen to see a deal that had too much teeth. That\u2019s because of a small but vocal anti-EU minority party in the UK, known as the UK Independence Party (UKIP). Several members of the European Parliament (MEPs) said Britain has been \u201ctaken hostage<\/a>\u201d because of UK Prime Minister David Cameron\u2019s fear of UKIP.<\/p>\n

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EU Weakens Climate Deal To Keep UK, Poland On Board. European Union leaders have agreed to a landmark deal to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next 15 years. The\u00a0agreement, reached Oct. 24, calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. European Council chair Herman Van Rompuy\u00a0called the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,279,283,284],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-eu","tag-european-parliament","tag-european-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}