EU countries will agree on the COP30 mandate on Tuesday. This is what Climate and Energy Minister Lars Aagaard (M) says on his way to a ministerial meeting in Luxembourg.
- The climate crisis is real, and it is caused by human activity. We will soon meet in Brazil for COP30, and the EU is ready. We have been a leader when it comes to lowering greenhouse gas emissions and helping the most vulnerable countries. I expect that we will reach an agreement on our COP30 mandate today, says Lars Aagaard.
The announcement comes after the EU's largest economies - Germany and France - surprisingly stood in the way of the EU being able to submit its 2035 climate target to the UN climate summit in September.
With this, France and Germany took a surprising step towards industrially-heavy EU countries such as Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, which have long been skeptical of the EU's high climate targets. Therefore, the EU initially had to present a non-binding target to the UN General Assembly in New York in September.
It is a setback for the EU, which for many years has been the leading actor in the work of securing ambitious climate goals. Despite the messy process leading up to COP30, the EU has nothing to be ashamed of, says Lars Aagaard.
- Nothing. We are leading when it comes to limiting greenhouse gas emissions. I have seen other countries submit their targets to the climate summit. I would encourage them to aim to have the same ambition as the EU, says Lars Aagaard.
Despite its economic size, the EU is only responsible for 6.0 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. This is far below the world's largest emitters - the USA, China and India. In comparison, China alone accounts for 30 percent of the world's emissions.
- The worst climate changes are now off the table, thanks to the changes that the EU in particular has implemented over the last ten years, says EU Commissioner for Climate Action Wopke Hoekstra.
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