European Union Climate Chief Calls for Net-Zero Emissions by 2050

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The European Union's climate chief on Tuesday called on the bloc to aim for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the most ambitious path in a long-term strategy due to be announced Wednesday.

With President Donald Trump pulling the United States out of international efforts to curb global warming, Miguel Arias Canete said the EU had to lead by example at the next round of United Nations talks on climate change opening Sunday in Katowice, Poland.

The 2050 strategy to be presented by the EU executive on Wednesday sets out eight scenarios for the bloc's 28 nations to cut emissions in line with the Paris Agreement — two of which chart of a course for the Europe to become climate neutral.

"It's worth becoming the first major economy to fully decarbonize, to fully reach net-zero emissions," Europe's Climate Commissioner Arias Canete told Reuters on Tuesday. "It is absolutely possible. For sure, it will require lots of investment. It will require lots of effort, but it is doable."