A push by most European Union nations for the world's biggest economic bloc...
it had garnered strong support, showing the growing political prominence of the fight against global warming.Months of youth climate protests and bleak warnings from U.N. scientists that more is needed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius helped propel Green parties to their strongest showing yet in May’s European Parliament elections.
But doubts remain even among nations in favor of the 2050 goal over how to pay for the economic shift to low-carbon technology in big employment sectors such as transport, farming and building and remain competitive. To achieve net-zero emissions, the bloc would have to invest an additional 175 to 290 billion euros per year in clean energy technology, according to an EU projection.
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