Europe will go to a UN summit in September with no agreed climate targets after leaders say they cannot reach agreement without a new roadmap toward energy independence. Discussions between European Union leaders on a new emissions reduction target for 2030 were sidetracked today by the crisis in Ukraine. A debate that was meant to set the stage for agreement on a new target instead became focused on reducing Europe’s energy dependence on Russia. --Dave Keating, European Voice, 21 March 2014