Baku (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – The EU Parliament delegation will attend COP29 in Baku, advocating for a fair, multi-source climate finance goal post-2025.
A European Parliament Delegation to COP29 UN Climate Change Conference led by MEP Chair LĂdia PEREIRA from the Group of the European People’s Party, member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Vice-Chair MEP Mohammed CHAHIM from Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the EU Parliament, member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety will be in Baku, Azerbaijan, between 18 and 22 November to partake in the UN COP29 Climate Change Conference.Â
As reported by the press of the EU Parliament, MEPs will meet with ministers, parliamentarians, civil society representatives, leaders of international climate organisations and other representatives.
What demands were outlined in the EU Parliament COP29 resolution?
Moreover, during its November session, the European Parliament voted on a motion for a resolution on COP29, tabled by its Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI). On 14 Nov 2024, Parliament assumed its demands for the UN Climate Change Conference COP29, which strives to define a new collective goal for financing climate action.
The resolution, drafted by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety, and approved with 429 votes in acceptance, 183 against and 24 abstentions, calls on all countries to arrange a post-2025 new collective purpose on climate finance that is socially fair, aligned with the polluter-pays principle, and founded on a variety of public, private and innovative sources of finance.
Further, MEPs urged all prominent and emerging economies with high emissions and high GDP to assist financially with global climate action. They called on the EU to step up its green diplomacy to assist create an international level playing field, dodge carbon leakage, and improve public support for climate action. MEPs stated that the EU should promote and support other countries to introduce or enhance carbon pricing mechanisms, such as its emissions trading system and carbon border adjustment instrument.
