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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12115

12 October 2018
SECTORAL POLICIES / Climate
COP 24, MEPs call on EU to raise its ambition before 2020 and its 2030 target 
Brussels, 11/10/2018 (Agence Europe)

By 29 votes to 19 with 3 abstentions, the European Parliament's environment committee on Wednesday 10 October called on the EU to raise its level of climate ambition by 2020 and 2030, in order to take into account the IPCC's special report on the impacts of an average global warming of 1.5° Celsius.  This level of ambition was not to the liking of the EPP and ECR Groups. 

The draft resolution on COP 24 in Katowice (3-14 December), which was adopted, stresses that the commitments...

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