By Kate Abnett

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union leaders want a revision clause in the bloc’s new climate change target, potentially allowing them to weaken it in future, draft conclusions for a summit on Thursday showed.

Government leaders will meet for what diplomats expect to be a heated debate on the EU’s new climate target for 2040, which has stoked concerns in some capitals over how to fund the low-carbon transition alongside priorities like defence and revitalising local industries.

Draft conclusions for the meeting, seen by Reuters, said leaders would agree for EU countries and lawmakers to proceed in setting the 2040 climate goal. But they also set out conditions for doing this.

These included “the need for a revision clause, in light of latest scientific evidence, technologi

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