EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Climate

COP 23 - Parliament calls on EU to raise targets and to develop a strategy till 2050

Brussels, 04/10/2017 (Agence Europe)

With one month to go until COP 23 (Bonn, 6-17 November), the European Parliament called, in Strasbourg on Wednesday 4 October, for the EU to ratchet up its goals and policy instruments when, following the 2018 facilitative dialogue, all the countries that are party to the Paris Agreement will be required to increase their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the implementation of the universal climate agreement.

The resolution, adopted by a show of hands, calls on the European Union...