European Union overseas coverage chief Josep Borrell speaks with the media as he arrives for an EU Africa summit on the European Council constructing in Brussels on Feb. 17, 2022. (AP Picture/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, Pool)
BRUSSELS --
European Union overseas ministers will name on the bloc's high diplomat to scale up efforts on local weather change this 12 months to assist clinch more durable emissions-cutting objectives from particular person international locations, a draft doc resulting from be adopted on Monday stated.
Practically 200 international locations agreed eventually 12 months's COP26 local weather summit in Glasgow, Scotland, to set more durable emissions discount targets in time for the following UN local weather convention this November.
The goal is to bridge the hole between international locations' pledges and the far quicker emissions cuts wanted this decade to cease the world heating past 2C or 1.5C above pre-industrial ranges, which scientists say would unleash disastrous local weather penalties.
International ministers from EU international locations will on Monday urge the bloc's most senior diplomat, excessive consultant for overseas affairs Josep Borrell, to scale up local weather diplomacy, in line with a draft of their assembly conclusions.
"The council invitations the excessive consultant, in shut cooperation with the Fee and EU member states, to proceed and scale up an energetic local weather diplomacy and cooperation with companions within the run-up to the COP27, to set extra formidable targets," in line with the draft, which might change earlier than it's revealed.
The EU struck local weather offers final 12 months together with an US$8.5 billion settlement with the US and different international locations to assist South Africa section out coal quicker -- a deal seen as a attainable blueprint for local weather funding in different international locations.
The draft stated the EU ought to discover different partnerships earlier than COP27 with international locations closely reliant on coal energy technology or mining.
EU international locations and the European Parliament will this 12 months negotiate a raft of latest insurance policies to chop EU emissions extra rapidly, a few of which can have worldwide ripples -- together with the world's first carbon border tariff, imposing emissions prices on polluting items imported into the EU.
That has unnerved international locations, together with Russia and China, though Brussels has stated international locations with their very own carbon pricing insurance policies might dodge the border levy.
(Reporting by Kate Abnett; modifying by John Chalmers and David Holmes)
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