Overview
- EU environment ministers meet in Brussels to lock in a 90% emissions‑cut goal for 2040 and to agree a concrete 2035 plan after missed submission deadlines.
- Disagreements center on the permitted use of international carbon credits beyond the Commission’s 3% proposal and on adding review clauses to the target.
- Germany’s Carsten Schneider says “the decision is today,” and France’s Monique Barbut warns that arriving without a deal would be a disaster for the bloc’s credibility.
- UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report finds current policies track about 2.8°C of warming, full national pledges imply 2.3–2.5°C, and a 1.5°C overshoot is likely within the next decade.
- A new climate facts paper flags record 2024 heat and rising tipping‑point risks as global coal use set a high; 33 cities launched a Cool Cities Accelerator; Brazil’s COP host city upgrades involved rainforest clearing and coincided with Petrobras test‑drilling approval in the Amazon estuary.