Sep 25, 2025
News, Politics
As China and EU disappoint, prospects of meeting 1.5C climate target fade
After Donald Trump’s tirade against global climate action earlier this week, many campaigners were hoping for a more robust response from the European Union and China
This week’s pledges by the EU, China and other large countries for emissions cuts by 2035 are not ambitious enough to get global climate targets back on track, climate experts say.
With the US withdrawing from the Paris Agreement and President Donald Trump pouring scorn on climate action in his speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, climate campaigners had hoped to see the European Union and China in particular step up. But many were disappointed by their announcements at the UN climate summit in New York on Wednesday.
“The US is absent. China and the EU have not raised each other’s ambition enough and even Australia, which is bidding to host COP31, has presented a weak target,” said Tracy Carty, a climate change politics specialist from Greenpeace International.
Chinese President Xi Jinping told the summit that China – the world’s top emitter – would cut emissions by between 7% and 10% by 2035 against peak levels. Its previous goal was for emissions to peak by around 2030.
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/09/25/as-china-and-eu-disappoint-prospects-of-meeting-1-5c-climate-target-fade/
