Brussels is to propose a 15 per cent cut to trucks’ emissions within seven years, rejecting calls from companies, campaigners and some EU member states for more ambitious targets to help meet climate change commitments. Transport produces a quarter of EU carbon emissions and is the only area of the bloc’s economy in which emissions are still growing, after cuts in sectors such as electricity and agriculture. The EU committed in the Paris climate accord to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2030. Lorries make up about 5 percent of the vehicles on EU roads but generate nearly a quarter of emissions, making them an important target of the bloc’s carbon reduction efforts. The European Commission will on Wednesday vote on a plan for a 15 percent cut in so-called heavy-duty trucks’ carbon dioxide emissions by 2025 and a 30 percent cut by 2030, according to two people aware of the draft proposals that have been prepared. The proposals will offer incentives to encourage truckmakers to manufacture zero-emission vehicles but will not include mandatory production targets. The goals can be reassessed in 2022 in light of progress and technological developments. The European Parliament and national governments will need to approve the new rules, which echo the commission’s proposal for passenger vehicles made in November.