European leaders met in Brussels on March 23-24 to launch negotiations over the course of the European Union’s ambition for bold action on climate issues and clean energy scale-up set against its members’ varying resources, shaky economies and the ongoing war in Ukraine.
A potentially far-reaching debate—if short on details for resulting actions—continues about how to overhaul the continent’s energy systems, markets and infrastructure as it develops a plan to reach goals to cut net greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030 and insure that the EU has access to critical raw materials and industrial support needed.