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    EU cannot afford climate change 'oblivion'

    If the European Union wants to remain an effective global leader in fighting climate change, Commission President-elect Jean-Claude Juncker needs to backpedal and undo many of his recent changes. How? Two experts from the European Centre for Development Policy Management offer five concrete tips.

    By Alisa Herrero Cangas, Hanne Knaepen // 23 September 2014

    Two major international agreements will be signed in 2015, making it an important year for climate change: a new legally binding global treaty on climate change and a new sustainable development framework to replace the Millennium Development Goals. Although both agenda are interlinked, negotiations on each are taking place in separate tracks. Overall success will be a direct function of the level of ambition on both sides of the equation.

    Europe is set to play an important role in both negotiation processes. Climate change is at the center of the EU’s 2008 international security strategy and it is regarded as a “threat multiplier” — a global environmental and development challenge that will exacerbate instability and create humanitarian, political, economic and security risks affecting European interests.

    Sustainable development and the fight against climate change are the EU’s overarching objectives as set by the Lisbon Treaty. Since 2009, Brussels has actively revamped its foreign policy architecture on climate action. It has refined its climate diplomacy strategy, made bold financial commitments to scale up climate financing until 2020 and mainstreamed climate change throughout its various budget instruments.

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    • Alisa Herrero Cangas

      Alisa Herrero Cangas

      Alisa Herrero Cangas is a policy officer at ECDPM and is based in Brussels. With a background in international relations and development, studying at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the London School of Economics, she specializes in the interinstitutional aspects of EU external relations and in EU development cooperation.
    • Hanne Knaepen

      Hanne Knaepen

      Hanne Knaepen is an ECDPM policy officer, focusing on climate change issues within the program on regional and local markets for agriculture development and food security. She received her doctorate in Global Environmental Studies from Kyoto University, Japan, where she resided for a period of four years.

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