The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Member States adopted, on Monday 25 January, the conclusions of the Council of the European Union on EU climate and energy diplomacy. In particular, they call for a global phase-out of subsidies for fossil fuels and coal in power generation, with an immediate halt to the financing of new coal infrastructure in non-Member States as a first step.
As previously detailed in our lines (see EUROPE B12642A5), these conclusions differ somewhat from the...