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The agreement in question was brokered by EU states in October 2014 at the 2030 climate talks.
After the deal was announced, then-European Commission (EC) president, Jose Manuel Barroso, said it signaled real progress for the fight against climate change.
However, documents released to the Guardian under Freedom of Information (FoI) indicate a core section of the deal was put forward by a Shell lobbyist as early as 2011.
As the 2030 climate talks came to a close, EU leaders finally backed a 40 percent overall target for the bloc's cuts to emissions.
Throughout the course of negotiations, member states differed on how they felt emissions could be curbed. Britain and other leading EU states resisted the prospect of binding targets for individual states on renewable energy and energy efficiency and the proposal was scrapped from the deal.
But renewable energy advocates say this marked a missed opportunity to show global investors that the EU embraces clean energy.
Comment: The game has been rigged from all sides. Oil barons could obviously care less about the people while the whole carbon emission gambit is a complete farce. Answers aren't going to be found in global warming activism or related 'research'. It's a dead end, and we've been deceived in thinking it addresses the real problems we're facing to begin with.