Joint BusinessEurope – ETUC letter on international climate negotiations

Ahead of the United Nations climate conference in Paris in December 2015 BusinessEurope and ETUC sent a joint letter to EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, EC Vice-President for Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič and European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Cañete. The two organisations express their concern that, at present, many crucial elements of the architecture of the new global deal remain unclear, and urge the EU to mobilise its network in order to discuss the scope and content of the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). They count on the EU to play a strong role in achieving transparent and comparable pledges from all major economies to be able to build a meaningful agreement in Paris.