BRUSSELS — The European Union is set to miss a global deadline for new climate goals … as it prepares to lecture the world about the importance of those goals.

By February 10, governments are due to submit new plans to the United Nations for how they intend to tackle climate change. These documents, the backbone of the Paris Agreement, will outline each country’s efforts to reduce global warming emissions by 2035.

The EU, which sets a collective target for its 27 member countries, said advancing ambitious plans for 2035 was one of its top priorities for the global climate summit that began in Azerbaijan on Monday. And with Donald Trump set to return to the White House, many seek to EU to expand its leadership role.

But as European diplomats, ministers and leaders arrive in Baku, the bloc is preparing to table its own plan late — perhaps even very late, given the growing reluctance of some EU countries to commit to more ambitious climate goals.