Meeting in Strasbourg for the European Parliament’s plenary session on Thursday 21 October, MEPs adopted (527 votes in favour, 134 against and 35 abstentions) a resolution calling for more ambition on climate change ahead of the 26th session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26).
Presenting the resolution (see EUROPE B12810A28) during a debate in Parliament on the eve of the vote, Dutch MEP Bas Eickhout (Greens/EFA) urged the world’s states to “step up their climate...