MEPs believe that the regional level should be more involved and taken into account in the development and implementation of environmental and climate change policies, in an own-initiative report by Tonino Picula (S&D, Croatia), adopted (572 votes to 79, 37 abstentions) in plenary session on Thursday 25 March.
Recalling that local and regional authorities are in the front line of the climate fight (90% of EU environment and climate change measures are implemented at local level), they...