The European way of life is being jeopardised by environmental degradation, a report has found, with EU officials warning against weakening green rules. The EU’s “carbon sink” has declined by about 30% in a decade as logging, wildfires and pests damage forests. Member states have failed to adapt to extreme weather as fast as risk levels have risen. It found only two of 22 specific policy targets for 2030 – greenhouse gas emissions and ozone-depleting substances – were “largely on track”. “Our consumption levels are way, way, way too high.”EU leaders have shifted their focus from climate action to economic competitiveness over the past year, weakening green policies as part of a push for “simplification” that campaigners said was deregulation.