EU environment ministers will assess their progress on negotiating a raft of new climate change policies on Thursday, with countries divided over whether soaring energy prices should speed up or slow down their green agenda. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Europe’s top gas supplier, has put the EU on a mission to quit Russian fossil fuels within a few years – by hiking gas imports from elsewhere, and doubling down on its plans to slash planet-warming emissions this decade. Those plans, which Brussels says will both fight climate change and help wrest countries free of Moscow’s influence, include a dozen laws to curb emissions from industry, transport and the energy sector. Ministers from EU countries will attempt on Thursday to find routes out of disagreements […]