BRUSSELS — The European Union’s top scientific advisers Monday blasted the EU’s expected plan to outsource part of the bloc’s climate efforts to poorer countries.
The EU’s scientific advisory board on climate change, an independent body legally tasked with making global warming policy recommendations, insisted the bloc must meet its 2040 emissions-cutting target exclusively with domestic efforts.
“The integrity of the domestic goal should not be undermined by these international activities,” Ottmar Edenhofer, the board’s chair, told reporters Monday.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, as well as her climate chiefs Wopke Hoekstra and Teresa Ribera, have promised a proposal to cut 90 percent of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. But many governments pushed back at those plans.
