EU Environment Ministers Discussed Climate Change Actions in Sofia

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The biggest challenges in the international process in the climate negotiations in 2018 and the EU's actions to deal with them were discussed on the second day of the informal meeting of EU environment ministers in Sofia. At the UN Conference on Climate Change in Katowice, Poland, at the end of the year, agreement should be reached on the progress towards delivering a solid set of rules for the future climate governance regime (the 'Paris Agreement Work Programme'), ensuring that the parallel processes foreseen at the Committee of the Parties (COP), namely, the political phase of the Talanoa Dialogue, the pre-2020 stocktake and the High Level event on climate finance are also successful and constructive.

"The current year 2018 is extremely dynamic and busy. The ongoing preparatory talks and work are aimed at achieving the ambitions for the upcoming COP24 in Poland," said the Minister of Environment and Water Neno Dimov at the opening of the session. "We expect COP24 to reach agreement on the Paris Agreement Work Programme and to ensure the success and constructiveness of the parallel processes provided by the Conference of the Parties. These include the political phase of the Talanoa Dialogue, the pre-2020 stocktake, and the High Level event on climate finance. Last but not least, the next Bonn Climate Change Session in two weeks is due to make serious progress on details and to review the technical level of the Talanoa Dialogue", said Minister Dimov.

He announced that, in order to guide the discussion, the Bulgarian Presidency prepared a background document with two questions:

• What are the biggest challenges in the process during 2018 and what are the tools the EU has to address these, e.g. in terms of forging a progressive "rulebook-alliance"...

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