In Luxembourg on Monday 24 October, the Environment Ministers of the European Union Member States unanimously adopted EU Council conclusions on the EU’s preparations for the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27).
Ministers found it difficult to agree on two points in the text in particular: Paragraph 11 on updating the ‘nationally determined contributions’ (NDCs) of the EU and its Member States - non-binding national plans setting out the individual actions planned by...