They are all worrying about the wrong problem.
Just watch the Chinese, they are not really worried about climate.
They are flat out running around the world buying up oil, gas and
coal fields. They know what side their bread is buttered on.
Do you really think they are building all those wind farms to save
a fraction of the CO2 that their power stations produce ?

They have done the arithmetic and can see that they need to corner
the energy market to give them the maximum transition time.
You can bet they have read the Hirsch report and realise they have
less than the twenty years needed.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, our pollies just sit on their hands
and pretend they have never heard of peak everything.
Same goes for Europe, just waiting for something to turn up.
They still don't realise that the globalisation of trade has entered
its last years. It is no coincidence that Singapore Roads has
hundreds of ships tied up waiting for cargoes that will never come.

Want to buy a cheap asylum seeker transport ?

The problem is convincing all of the people of the different EU countries- who clearly want something different from one another (as the article stated) to relinquish their national (and seemingly democratic) sovereignty just so the EU commissioners get to feel big and hard on the world stage.

Which IS all it comes down to.

But suppose the other countries abroad actually did change their tune- this would have absolutely zero improvement upon the life of the EU citizen.

So either the commissioners will be able to find some kind of loophole to bypass democracy, will keep repeating the same referendum on a few yearly basis until the people cave in and give them what they want, or pigs will fly!