International Herald Tribune: Weakening growth, huge investment needs and a highly contentious policy framework are just a few of the reasons why European Union member states may not get close to their goals for reducing carbon emissions in the next decade or so. As industrialization worsens pollution across the planet – the International Energy Agency, in Paris, forecasts a 50 percent rise in emissions by 2030 – Europe has laudably tried to take a lead in finding a solution. In March 2007, months before …