EU efforts to rebuild Ukraine will focus heavily on decarbonisation and other green agenda goals, senior Brussels officials have said.

The European Commission has confirmed that EU efforts to rebuild Ukraine will focus heavily on the bloc’s green agenda goals, such as decarbonisation.

Many climate change-obsessed officials in the European Union have frequently cited Russia’s war in Ukraine as posing an opportunity to reduce carbon emissions, with German climate change minister Robert Habeck even previously saying that the Volodymyr Zelensky administration’s “real problem” was its use of coal, as opposed to the fact that a foreign army is occupying large swathes of the country.

More subtly echoing this provocative statement, EU commissioner Kadri Simson confirmed that efforts to aid Ukraine both during and after the war will focus heavily on the bloc’s climate goals, with Brussels keen to push decarbonisation efforts in the invaded nation.