POLITICAL WARMING ON THE CLIMATE FRONT

At the end of 2015 in Paris the European Union demonstrated global leadership and ambition in the area of climate and environmental policies, as it played a crucial role for signing a binding international agreement on reducing the carbon emissions on a global scale. The European ambition surpassed that of all the global players – by 2050 the EU envisages to have reduced its greenhouse gases emissions by 80% in comparison to the 1990 levels. Is the EU capable of achieving this objective and what will it take to negotiate the Clean Energy Package – see more in the analysis of Dr. Linka Toneva here.