“Unprecedented citizen mobilisations are taking place across EU member states calling for increased action against climate change, showing that climate action is an integral element of the future of Europe and that increasing the EU’s commitments under the Paris Agreement is an urgent necessity,” the Coalition for Higher Ambition wrote in an open letter ahead of the upcoming European Council on 21 March where leaders will discuss the Commission’s vision for a climate neutral economy.
The second High-level meeting of the renewable energy section of the Clean Energy Industrial Forum (CEICIF), chaired by EU Climate Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete, took place on 18 March where he reiterated the Commission’s commitment to having the EU becoming a world leader on renewable energy.
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