EU agrees Paris climate talks stance

The EU on Friday unveiled its stance on the upcoming climate negotiations in Paris, recommitting to its own greenhouse gas cuts for 2030 and urging the world to reduce emissions to zero by the end of the century. "With this solid position, the EU will be a deal maker in Paris, and not just a deal taker," EU Climate Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete told a press conference, despite criticism from environmental groups that Brussels has not gone far enough ahead of the UN climate talks at the end of the year. Spain's Canete said the 28 European Union environment ministers meeting in Brussels agreed that the planned UN accord should incorporate five-yearly reviews to ratchet up efforts to fight climate change.

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