On Tuesday 24 June, MEPs on the European Parliament’s Committee on Environment (ENVI) debated the EU’s climate action ahead of COP30 in Belém (Brazil), which is the subject of a draft Parliament resolution currently being negotiated (see EUROPE 13648/8).
Several co-rapporteurs, such as Lida Pereira (EPP, Spanish) and Annalisa Corrado (S&D, Italian), called for the opportunity to be seized at this new COP, which will take place in November, to relaunch multilateralism in a world faced with a number of regional conflicts.
For Mrs Pereira, COP30 in Belém represents “an important moment to strengthen Europe’s leadership at a time when other economies are ignoring the urgency of climate change”.
Mrs Corrado, for her part, insisted that decarbonisation was as crucial for global climate resilience as it was “for international diplomacy and for peace”.
The rapporteurs also call on the EU to present an ambitious ‘nationally determined contribution’ (NDC) - to be derived from the 2040 target (see EUROPE 13661/7, 13651/5), which the Commission will present next week, as confirmed by Alessandra Sgobbi, Head of Unit at the European Commission’s DG CLIMA, during this exchange.
In the same vein, Stine Bosse (Renew Europe, Danish) considered it “essential that the European Union strengthens its climate diplomacy and continues to push for international action, despite the current geopolitical context”. “The European Union must take the lead in this movement at COP30”, she insisted.
Members of the ENVI Committee also adopted two oral questions, one addressed to the European Commission, the other to the Council of the EU, asking them to specify in concrete terms the actions to be taken to ensure that COP30 results in significant progress on NDCs, the implementation of the ‘Global Stocktake’ actions from COP28 in Dubai, and climate finance.
On this last point, Mrs Sgobbi said that, in line with what was decided at COP29 in Baku last year (see EUROPE 13533/5), “we will need many new post-2025 targets on climate finance in order to provide funding for developing countries”.
“We therefore call on all stakeholders to contribute to these efforts with the $1.3 trillion Baku to Belém ‘roadmap’” [this consists of increasing aid for climate action on a voluntary basis to a total of $1.3 trillion, Editor’s note]. “We will identify the measures we need to unlock private and public finance for developing countries”, she stressed.
To see the oral questions: https://aeur.eu/f/hjd ; https://aeur.eu/f/hje (Original version in French by Pauline Denys)