The white smoke still seems far away.
The European Union prefers “rather no agreement than a bad agreement” in the climate negotiations at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, which is playing extensions until at least this Saturday, warned the vice -President of the Commission Frans Timmermans.
"We are worried about some of the things we have seen and heard over the past 12 hours," he told reporters on Saturday morning, adding that the Europeans' goal was to keep the global warming limit of 1.5°C, the most ambitious objective of the Paris agreement.
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Earlier in the morning, a French government source said the EU was rejecting an "unacceptable" proposal by the Egyptian Presidency of COP 27 on climate, which would lead to questioning past commitments on reducing emissions. of greenhouse gases.
"Unacceptable"
“At this stage, the Egyptian presidency calls into question the achievements of Paris and Glasgow on the reduction of emissions.
This is unacceptable for France and the countries of the EU”, indicated the entourage of the French Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher.
The “vast majority” of countries find the proposals “balanced”, for its part indicated the Egyptian presidency.
A cornerstone of the fight against climate change, the 2015 Paris Agreement aims to limit global warming "well below 2°C" compared to the pre-industrial era, and if possible to 1.5° vs.
This ambition was reaffirmed at COP26 in Glasgow last year.
"The problem is that the Egyptian presidency is trying to pass a text that would lift the obligations of States to regularly raise the targets for reducing emissions to reach 1.5 degrees", it was explained in the entourage of the minister.
