EU countries back plans to cut planet-warming emissions
EU countries have backed plans to cut planet-warming emissions with a 2035 phase-out of new fossil fuel car sales and a multibillion-euro fund to shield poorer citizens from CO2 costs. Reuters reports that environment ministers from the European Union’s 27 member states agreed their joint positions on five laws, part of a broader package of measures to cut planet-warming emissions this decade, on Wednesday, 29 June, 2022. “The climate crisis…