FILE PHOTO: European Union's flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium October 15, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU environment ministers are set to agree this week to make the bloc's pledge to be climate neutral by 2050 legally binding, although tough questions about how deeply to cut emissions over the next decade will be left to leaders to discuss in December.
The bloc, which takes big decisions by consensus among its 27 member states, is inching its way towards tighter emissions goals in time for a year-end deadline under the Paris climate agreement to spell out targets for 2030.
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