Europe risks exclusion from key UN climate body

(EurActiv, 23 Sep 2016) The swift ratification of the Paris Agreement by the USA – and especially by China – has caught the EU off guard and risks excluding the bloc from a key decision-making body that will be instituted at the next Conference of the Parties in Marrakesh (COP22), diplomats told EurActiv.

The EU was until now seen – and often decried at home – for being the undisputed leader in the global push to address climate change.

But European diplomats today agree there is a real risk that the bloc will be excluded from decision-making related to the implementation of the agreement, once it comes into force.

This would be a major humiliation that the vast majority of EU countries want to avoid.

CMA without the EU?

In a stunt never attempted before, EU countries will make efforts to speed up the ratification of the Paris deal through national parliaments by 7 October.

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EurActiv, 23 Sep 2016: Europe risks exclusion from key UN climate body