EU Spring Summit
European leaders must keep their promises on climate change policy
The next EU Spring Summit or European Council will take place on 13 and 14 March. One of the main topic to be addressed will be climate change. The Slovenian Presidency is expected to push for more ambitious climate targets: a -30% GHG reduction by 2020 instead of the current -20%.
A summit of small-mindedness
Rebecca Harms commenting on the result of the spring summit
Compared with the Climate Summit in 2007, this summit
seemed to be small-minded, as European excitement regarding the fight
against climate change has disappeared. Instead, EU leaders indulged in
a frenzy of bargaining for exceptions and further compromises.
Claude Turmes
Green MEP Claude Turmes is the rapporteur of the European Parliament on the creation of the Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund (GEEREF).He gives some further explanation on this file.
Rebecca Harms and Eva Lichtenberger
At the occasion of the European Council Spring Summit, Green MEPs Rebecca Harms and Eva Lichtenberger highlight the most important energy and climate topics to be discussed by the Heads of State (in German)
Herbert Reul; MEP
German EPP-ED MEP Herbert Reul gives us his point of view on the energy and climate topics of the Spring Summit.
