Tag for 'Climate Change'
Friday, June 10th, 2016
Climate Action: EU prepares the way for a quick ratification of Paris Agreement Brussels, 10 June 2016 The European Commission today presented a proposal for the European Union to ratify the Paris Agreement, the world's first universal, legally binding deal to tackle climate change. The Commission's proposal comes just weeks after the EU and 174 [...]
Friday, June 3rd, 2016
European Union joins Mission Innovation, a global initiative on clean energy Brussels, 3 June 2016 The European Union has joined Mission Innovation, a global initiative on clean energy, at its inaugural ministerial meeting in San Francisco on 1-2 June. This initiative was launched at the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) in Paris with [...]
Friday, April 22nd, 2016
Paris Agreement signing ceremony in New York – the EU calls for swift ratification Brussels, 21 April 2016 The European Union will sign the Paris Agreement on climate change on Friday 22 April in New York.The signing ceremony, convened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, follows the adoption of the world's first universal climate change agreement [...]
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
Climate Action: Europe readies next steps to implement the Paris Agreement Brussels, 2 March 2016 Today, the European Commission presented an assessment of the implications for the European Union of the new global climate agreement adopted in Paris in December 2015.The assessment looks at the next steps in the process and how the Paris Agreement [...]
Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Towards Energy Union: The Commission presents sustainable energy security package Brussels, 16 February 2016 The Commission today unveiled a package of energy security measures to equip the EU for global energy transition to address possible energy supply interruptions. Energy security dimension is one of the cornerstones of the Energy Union strategy, a key political priority [...]
Saturday, December 12th, 2015
Historic climate deal in Paris: EU leads global efforts Paris, 12 December 2015 The European Union has played a key role in brokering today's historic agreement in Paris, where 195 countries adopted a new universal, legally binding global climate deal.The ambitious and balanced agreement, the first major multilateral deal of the 21st century, sets out [...]
Tuesday, December 8th, 2015
EU and 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries join forces for ambitious global climate deal Paris, 8 December 2015 As UN climate negotiations enter their final days, the European Union and the group of 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific States today stressed their shared commitment for an ambitious and binding global climate deal to be [...]
Monday, November 30th, 2015
Paris UN climate change conference Paris, 30/11/2015 From 30 November to 11 December Paris will host the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 11th session of the meeting of the parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 11).Donald Tusk, President [...]
Thursday, November 26th, 2015
CO2 emissions from new vehicles in Europe continued to decrease in 2014 European Environment Agency26/11/2015 Vehicles sold in the European Union in 2014 were, on average, 2.5% more efficient than those sold the previous year, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA). The report, which updates the preliminary data published earlier [...]
Thursday, November 26th, 2015
Coal-fired power plants: EU endorses new OECD rules on export credits 26/11/2015868/15 New rules on export credits to coal-fired power plants, developed within an OECD framework, have been endorsed by the EU.This is an important EU contribution for the COP21 negotiations on climate change, which start in Paris on 30 November 2015. It marks a [...]