The European Commission on Wednesday proposed a template for sharing out the burden of cutting greenhouse gas emissions within the EU, setting out national targets that the 27 member states are certain to wrangle over. The European Union’s executive was launching a sprawling package of climate policy proposals, all designed to hit the EU’s goal of cutting net emissions by 55% by 2030, from 1990 levels. read more Most EU regulations are designed to meet an old target of a 40% cut, and the Commission said on Wednesday the new target had to mean tougher binding national goals for all. Under the EU’s “effort sharing” rules, each country will have to curb emissions in specific sectors – including transport and heating buildings – by an amount calculated from its per capita economic output. That means richer EU countries have tougher targets than poorer ones. […]