The EU agreed to increase their climate ambitions for the COP27 UN climate conference, which will be held in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el Sheikh from 6 until 18 November.
A "strong mandate" was needed to keep the conclusions of last year's summit "alive" and convince other countries to follow the EU's lead, EU climate chief Frans Timmermans said on Monday (24 October). But it took lengthy negotiations to get all 27 countries to agree to update the bloc's climate target "as soon ...
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Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.