Climate & Environment
EU’s Green Deal at risk of being dragged into divisive ‘culture wars’, warns Timmermans
The EU’s commissioner for climate change said certain groups were trying to create tribal opposition to Europe’s landmark climate policies
The European Union’s landmark green deal is at risk of being dragged into the “culture wars,” said the bloc’s climate chief Frans Timmermans as he warned that plans to reach net-zero by the middle of the century risk being paralyzed by political division.
“Some are trying to draw climate policy into the culture wars, because then you create a tribal opposition,” Timmermans told reporters on Tuesday. “And once you get into a tribal opposition, then ...
