The European Union will ratify the Doha amendment to the Kyoto Protocol before the end of the year, announced Estonian President of the Environment Council Siim Kissler and Climate Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete at the COP23 on Thursday 16 November, giving assurance that the EU will meet its key pre-2020 climate action commitments – a matter of major importance for developing countries and one of the difficult points in the negotiations in Bonn.
The amendment, which...