EUROCHAMBRES wishes to express their expectations for the outcome of the negotiations, as well as their approach to the SDGs, in the light of the upcoming COP26 in Glasgow.
The signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015 marked a watershed moment in international climate action. Since then, a growing number of countries have committed to specific decarbonisation targets. Recent calculations on aggregated national climate targets, however, show that they will not result in the desired limitation of global average temperature to well below 2°C.
The EU is a global frontrunner in climate action, and it should maintain its position as a technology leader in this field. Nonetheless, implementing ever more carbon-cutting measures while others have only pledged to...
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