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		</div><p>European Union countries have reached a deal backing stricter climate rules that would eliminate carbon emissions from new cars by 2035 following hard-fought talks that dragged on into the early hours of Wednesday.</p>
<p>The 27 member states found a common agreement on draft legislation aimed at slashing EU greenhouse gases by at least 55% in 2030 compared with 1990 rather than by a previously agreed 40%.</p>
<p>“A long but good day for climate action: the Council’s decisions on Fitfor55 are a big step towards delivering the EU Green Deal,” said Frans Timmermans, the European Commission vice-president in charge of the Green Deal, after the meeting of environment ministers in Luxembourg.</p>
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<p>The deal on the five laws proposed by the EU’s executive arm last year paves the way for the final negotiations with the European Parliament.</p>
<p>EU politicians are backing ambitious bloc-wide targets and final approval of the legislative package will now require the Parliament to iron out differences with the bloc’s national governments over various details.</p>
<p>French minister for the energy transition Agnes Pannier-Runacher said: “The Council is now ready to negotiate with the European Parliament on concluding the package, thereby placing the European Union more than ever in the vanguard of fighting climate change.”</p>
<p>The decision to introduce a 100% CO2 emissions reduction target by 2035 for new cars and vans will effectively prohibit the sale in the 27-nation bloc of new cars powered by petrol or diesel.</p>
<p>The EU wants to drastically reduce emissions from transport by 2050 and promote electric cars, but a report from the bloc’s external auditor showed last year that the bloc is lacking the appropriate charging stations. Transport accounts for about 25% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the EU.</p>
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<p>Europe’s leading clean transport campaign group, Transport and Environment, said the EU government’s agreement is “historic” as it “breaks the hold of the oil industry over transport”.</p>
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“It’s game over for the internal combustion engine in Europe,” the group said.</p>
<p>Greenpeace was more sceptical, saying the 2035 deadline was too late to limit global warming to below 1.5C (2.7F).</p>
<p>The deal poses a huge challenge for German car-makers, which have long relied on sales of increasingly big, gas-guzzling vehicles for their profits.</p>
<p>Following intense haggling within the three-party government, particularly between the environmentalist Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats, German officials voted in favour of the compromise overnight.</p>
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<p>The German government said the deal will also see the Commission make a proposal that will allow cars that run exclusively on climate neutral e-fuels to continue to be sold after 2035.</p>
<p>Environment minister Steffi Lemke, a member of the Greens, said: “This is a huge step forward and steers the transport sector on to the path of climate neutrality.”</p>
<p>By declaring that only cars and light utility vehicles which emit no CO2 can be sold from 2035, “we are sending a clear signal that we need to meet the climate targets. This gives the car industry the planning security it needs.”</p>
<p>In addition to the landmark agreement on cars, the package also features a reform of the EU’s carbon market and the creation of a social climate fund to help vulnerable households cope with the planned clean-energy revamp.</p>
<p>That particular issue has become more politically sensitive as Russia’s war in Ukraine has sent fuel prices soaring.</p>
<p>The overall goal is to put the EU on track to become climate-neutral in 2050 and to nudge other major polluters, including the United States and China, to follow suit.</p>
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