Tech companies stuck with the new EU climate targets

Companies including Facebook, Google and Microsoft have failed to distance themselves from a lobby group’s proposal to fight any effort by the EU to set more ambitious climate change goals.

A leaked document shows that BusinessEurope, Europe’s biggest business lobbying group, will urge members to oppose any moves by the European Commission to ratchet up the bloc’s 2030 targets for clean energy, carbon cuts, and energy efficiency.

The commission is considering whether to set more ambitious goals in November after a key international science panel report on meeting, global warming targets is published in October, and before a UN climate summit in December.