Divisions in the EU over emissions-cutting targets are stymieing work to reach an agreement on a climate plan in time to meet a UN deadline. The gathering comes amid wide divisions in the bloc, making it likely that the EU will attend the summit next week without the updated climate targets that are meant to be discussed there ahead of the key COP 30 conference in Brazil in November. Despite their inability to reach an agreement, European Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra defended the European Union's role in fighting climate change. What has caused the delay in putting forward a climate plan? Now, the EU ministers will instead try to agree at least a "statement of intent" with the goals that the bloc eventually hopes to approve.