Most European Union countries have boosted their renewable plans since 2020, putting them on course to cut fossil fuel use this decade as the energy and COVID-19 crises have spurred, not derailed their green transition, researchers said on Thursday.

Soaring energy costs and supply shocks triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have prompted some countries to burn more coal and buy up non-Russian gas, raising fears this will undermine efforts to fight climate change.

An analysis of EU countries’ climate policies suggests, in the longer run, the opposite should be true.

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EU countries signed an agreement to reduce carbon emissions of trucks and buses by 2030 by 30 percent compared to 2019.

Austria, the EU presidency president, announced that EU ministers’ environmental ministers agreed to reduce the carbon emissions of trucks and buses by 2030 by 20 percent compared to 2019.

As an interim target, the target is to reduce emissions by 15% by 2025 and by 2022 by 2022.

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