Europe faces growing pushback against policies to address climate change and protect the environment, causing its green agenda to start to fray as severe heatwaves and wildfires rage.
Dead fish from the Oder river are harvested with an excavator in Gryfino, Poland August 17, 2022. REUTERS/Kuba Stezycki/File Photoagainst policies to address climate change and protect the environment, causing its green agenda to start to fray as severe heatwaves and wildfires rage.on an array of European Union initiatives aimed at greening the economy, arguing that local business can ill-afford previously agreed transition goals.
Since then, Italy has demanded that the EU water down a directive aimed at improving the energy efficiency of buildings, re-write plans to phase out combustion engine cars and questioned a drive to slash industrial emissions.in hitting the decarbonisation goals for 2030 set by the EU, an energy ministry document said last month.
At the same time, the government continues with other aspects of the green agenda. Earlier this month, for example, it said it wanted to use EU money for an investment programme worth around 19 billion euros to strengthen power and gas grids and make its economy greener, as part of its efforts to revamp plans to spend EU post-COVID funds.
A separate government-commissioned review also found businesses complained of weaknesses in Britain's investment environment, including inconsistent policy commitment.to warn they will struggle to invest in Britain without better incentives.
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