The 28 heads of state and government made clear their determination on Thursday 22 March to press on with implementation of the Paris climate agreement beyond what had been expected (see EUROPE 11986).
They called on the European Commission to help them by presenting a proposal for a strategy for long-term EU greenhouse gas emissions reduction in accordance with the Paris Agreement, taking into account the national plans“by the first quarter of 2019”, that is, sufficiently ahead of...