Environmental groups have criticized a new trade that can spend more than $ 750 billion (€ 700 billion) on most fossil fuel imports from the United States over the next three years, warning that it can reduce the climate goals of the block.
Andreas Seber, associate director of policy and campaigns in the Climate Group, said, “This makes fossil fuel dependence in Europe, locked in the decades of volatile energy bills and accelerates wildfires and accelerates flood hawk in the entire continent.”
As part of an agreement that US President Donald Trump termed the “biggest deal ever”, the European Union Commission Chairman Ursula von dera Leyen said American energy would replace dandruff and gas, “what we don’t want.”
Instead, the purchase of Europe’s wooden wood “more economical and better” from the US (LNG) said, von dera leyen.
The deal, like cars, helped prevent a trade with 15% tariff on the export of the European Union. But critics stated that it represents “about” in Europe’s climate policy.
Esther Bolandorf, senior gas policy coordinator of the Climate Group, said, “The new US-EEU trade deal is a dramatic u-turn on the European Commission and the President and the President is a few years ago with the priorities of Leyen.” “Namely, climate ambition and rapid renewables create a future evidence of European Green Deal based on build-outs.”
The Commission unveiled the Green Deal to increase Europe’s ambitions at the end of 2019 under Von Der Leyen. Europe is the fastest heating area globally, saying scientists. The continent saw its hottest year on record in 2024.
What would be the fossil-fuel deal for climate?
A few weeks ago, the Commission had submitted proposals for 90% block-wind reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 compared to the 1990 level.
The mid -term target aims to help the European Union reach against the 2050 target of carbon neutrality, including implementing efficiency, electrification of the transport and promoting green energy. Over the next five years, the purpose of BLOC is 42.5% energy from renewable sources.
The US-AU trade deal “fly in the face” of these commitments, said Luke Hewood, the leading climate and energy in a network of European Environment, Environmental Organization.
He said in a statement, “American energy imports are not only physically vested in three years, it will derail the mid -term decirancy goals of the European Union.” Oil and gas emit greenhouse gas like burning co2, which stucks heat in the atmosphere and heat the planet, which leads to a more extreme weather.
Swapping pipeline gas for US LNG will further extend the emissions of Europe, Chris Aylet said, “A research companion of the Environment and Society Center, the Independent Policy Institute, UK -based Independent Policy Institute, Chautham House. This is because LNG production and transport emit more methane – a greenhouse gas is far more powerful than the CO2, although it does not last long in the atmosphere.
Can Europe keep its energy purchase celebrities?
Nevertheless, there is doubt whether Europe can live for its new pledge on American energy spending, it will be “very difficult with Elet.”
In 2024, the European Union imported € 60 billion oil and gas from the US. Another € 24 billion came from Russia. Together, it is a “long route away” from € 216 billion that the European Union promised to spend every year, Aillet told DW.
The European Commission therefore cannot force member states or companies to buy American energy, Elet said.
“This is an aspiration real. The European Union has a meeting that it can encourage it […] But all this is voluntary, so the commission is not shopping in itself, “He said.” In some ways the promise has made a bee that the commission itself is not real, but has no ability to give. ,
Swapping dependence on Russian energy with dependence on the US can also be “frightening” for energy security, warning Aylett.
“It must have been breaking the rule long ago, which is that you don’t just trust a supplier,” he told DW, saying that the block would “be extremely weak.”
Edited by: Jennifer Colins
