European Union countries remain split over their new climate change target and are still debating changes, just days before their ministers are due to approve the goal, according to diplomats and EU documents seen by Reuters on Friday.

The EU is racing to approve a climate target, with the European Commission aiming to reduce planet-warming emissions 90% by 2040, even as some member states worry over the costs to struggling domestic industries.

Failure to reach an agreement would leave Commission President Ursula von der Leyen without a target to present when she meets other world leaders at the U.N.’s COP30 climate summit, undermining the EU’s claim to climate leadership.

Asked whether EU governments would agree on a target ahead of the November 6 leaders’ gathering at COP30, one EU di

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