With two days to go until the end of COP24 on climate change in Katowice, 26 countries, including several EU Member States, and European Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete, made a commitment on Wednesday 12 December to raise their climate targets by 2020.
This is in response to the lessons of the IPCC Special Report on the assumption of an average global warming of 1.5 °C- the most ambitious objective of the Paris Agreement.
The news was welcomed by MEPs and NGOs in Katowice as a ray of...