{"id":425340,"date":"2021-07-12T08:56:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T03:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=425340"},"modified":"2021-07-12T10:20:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T04:50:28","slug":"european-unions-plan-for-carbon-push-stokes-public-backlash-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/european-unions-plan-for-carbon-push-stokes-public-backlash-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union&#8217;s plan for carbon push stokes public backlash fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS\/LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; A European Union plan to extend carbon pricing to the fuel used in cars and to heat homes is facing a wall of early resistance from countries and lawmakers fearing a public pushback unless backers find ways to compensate those worst hit. <\/p>\n<p>According to leaked drafts, the scheme would set up an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) for transport and heating, creating a market price for carbon &#8211; a price that fuel suppliers are likely to pass on to Europe&#8217;s half a billion consumers in the form of higher bills.<\/p>\n<p>Expected to be part of a package of proposals on July 14 aimed at ensuring the EU hits a target of cutting net emissions by 55% by 2030, it has been singled out by some capitals as something that could hurt the poorest in the 27-nation bloc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS\/LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; A European Union plan to extend carbon pricing to the fuel used in cars and to heat homes is facing a wall of early resistance from countries and lawmakers fearing a public pushback unless backers find ways to compensate those worst hit. According to leaked drafts, the scheme would set up an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) for transport and heating, creating a market price for carbon &#8211; a price that fuel suppliers are likely to pass on to Europe&#8217;s half a billion consumers in the form of higher bills. Expected to be part of a package of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}