The Council adopted the following Conclusions:
The urgency of raising global ambition, strengthening multilateralism, and the effective implementation of the Paris Agreement
1. Climate change is a direct and existential threat, which will spare no country. The world is already witnessing multiple devastating impacts of climate change, yet action to stem it remains insufficient. As the United Nations Secretary General has said, and, as unequivocally confirmed by the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C, the world is not moving fast enough to prevent irreversible and catastrophic climate disruption. In this context, it is a matter of extreme urgency to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change in the context of sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty. The European Union is therefore determined to help raise global ambition and lead the way on accelerated climate action on all fronts and recognises the severe implications that climate change poses to international security and stability.
2. The EU reaffirms its steadfast commitment to the Paris Agreement as the essential multilateral framework governing global action to deal with climate change. The Council congratulates the Presidency of the 24th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 24) for hosting a successful conference in Poland, and welcomes its positive outcome, the “Katowice Rulebook”, which equips the Paris Agreement to serve as an effective, operational and transparent platform for tackling the most urgent of global challenges, and provides a strong momentum for all countries to move forward and to raise global climate ambition. The EU is ready to communicate or update its NDC by 2020, as agreed in Paris, taking into account the collective further efforts needed and actions undertaken by all Parties.
www.consilium.europa.eu/media/38215/st06153-en19.pdf
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Is this the same EU that imposed neo-liberal austerity on Ireland and in particular Greece? So much for “…and efforts to eradicate poverty”.
I do agree that it will take something the size of the UN or EU to work across borders to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, but having the same old neo-liberal architects in power isn’t going to hack it. The EU is a bit of a schizophrenic monster, part benign, part genocidal – which head of this hydra is talking now?
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