EU poised to approve plan to meet climate goals despite farmers’ protests

Farmers have demonstrated in the European Quarter outside a meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Brussels (AP)

The European Union is on the brink of approving a major plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the bloc after protests from farmers and opposition from the biggest party in parliament led it to be diluted.

The plan is a key part of the EU’s European Green Deal that seeks to establish the world’s most ambitious climate and biodiversity targets and make the EU the global point of reference on all climate issues.