Due to possible US disengagement from the climate cause, France and the Netherlands took it upon themselves on Tuesday 28 February in Brussels, to emphasise the importance of the Paris Agreement and of the work required to put it into practice.
The environment ministers from these two countries, Ségolène Royal and Sharon Dijksma, took the initiative in a joint note presented to the Environment Council under “any other business items” to propose that “EU ministers responsible for...