EU leaders agree to cut emissions by at least 55% by end of decade

Member states avoid embarrassing deadlock after night-long talks before UN climate meetingEuropean Union leaders have reached a hard-fought deal to cut the bloc’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by the end of the decade compared with 1990 levels, avoiding a hugely embarrassing deadlock before a UN climate meeting this weekend.Following night-long discussions at their two-day summit in Brussels, on Friday the 27 member states approved the EU executive commission’s proposal to