The EU is almost on track to meet its 2030 climate targets, an official report has found, but efforts to cut pollution fall well short of its 2040 and 2050 targets. The report, published today by the European Environment Agency (EEA), found EU emissions fell by 1.6% in 2025, though at a slower pace than the year before and not deeply enough to put it on track to meet its goals. If all planned climate policies are put in place, its net emissions should fall by 54% from 1990 levels by the end of the decade, just shy of its legally binding target of 55%. Europe is among the biggest historical polluters of planet-heating gas, having begun the Industrial Revolution and exported its economic system around the world. In recent decades, though, it has championed some of the most dramatic reductions in pollution. The average European now pollutes a little less carbon than the average Chinese person. Both regions have per-capita emissions well below that of the US, Canada and Australia, though c