EU decides to quietly drop “carbon neutrality by 2050″

France (with nukes) and Germany (with a huge renewables component) used to lead the climate panic in the EU while the Eastern block (like Poland, with more coal and less cash) used to push back against it. But now Germany has finally had to pull the pin on the fantasy deadlines it kept failing to meet. This is despite renewables overtaking coal in Germany in January.

The EU Council has just released its summit statement– basically saying yes to all the IPCC favourite pet visions but not putting any dates on it. With no dates, it’s basically a meaningless wishlist.

But hey, it’s only the planet at stake, it’s not like there is a deadline that matters anyway eh?

The GWPF Calls it “Over” for the EU’s big carbon-neutral-by-2050 target

March 20: Tomorrow, the 28 leaders of EU countries are set to adopt a new strategy on action to combat climate change. In light of the student protests spreading across Europe and the world, many leaders in the West had wanted to strengthen the strategy. But this has been fiercely resisted by Eastern European countries led by Poland.

According to a leaked draft of the strategy, Poland […]