Verbatim report of proceedings

Wednesday, 26 November 2014 - Strasbourg

2014 UN Climate Change Conference - COP 20 in Lima, Peru (1-12 December 2014) (B8-0251/2014)

  Nessa Childers (S&D), in writing. — Climate change represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies, biodiversity and the planet, and therefore, must be addressed at international level. The negative impact of climate-change is already visible in natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans.

The EU negotiators attending the upcoming UN climate summit in Lima must do their utmost to ensure that significant progress is made towards achieving a new global climate agreement next year and avoid a 2°C rise in global temperature.

The EU must remain to the fore and broker the best possible deal. The Lima summit, and the summit in Paris next year will test EU diplomacy. A sort of ‘Paris alliance’ for a legally binding climate deal should be established in order to guarantee success.

Sufficient funding must be granted for climate protection. USD 10 billion have been allocated so far but we must find a way to reach 100 billion.