IEU Climate Telegram 23 September 2019

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UN CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT: 

• Actions not words: what was promised at the UN’s landmark climate summit? +++ 
• In Face of Worsening Climate Crisis, United Nations Summit Delivers New Pathways, Practical Actions to Shift Global Response into Higher Gear +++ 
• 87 Major Companies Lead the Way Towards a 1.5°C Future at UN Climate Action Summit +++ 
• Ahead of UN summit, leading scientists warn climate change ‘hitting harder and sooner’ than forecast +++ 
• Greta Thunberg tells world leaders ‘you are failing us’, as nations announce fresh climate action +++ 
• Chinese Leadership Critical to Tackle Climate Change, Deputy Secretary-General Says at Anniversary Reception for People’s Republic of China’s Founding +++ 
• The EU at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York today +++ 
• Speech by EU Council President Tusk at the UN Climate Action Summit +++ 
• Speech by EU Council President Tusk at the meeting on the action for the Amazon
• EU Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Cañete and China’s Special Representative on Climate Change Xie Zhenhua: meeting in New York at the UN Climate Action Summit
• EU Commission: Updated 2050 long-term strategy
• EuroparlTV: How the EU is fighting climate change
• Udo Bullmann (S&D/SPD) zum UN-Nachhaltigkeitsgipfel in New York: „Ehrgeizigere Ziele nötig“
• CAN Europe: Despite growing protests, EU leaders fail to back higher EU 2030 climate target
• Germanwatch: Merkel mit klarem Bekenntnis zu Klimaneutralität bis 2050 für Deutschland und internationalem Waldschutz - aber ansonsten keine neuen Zusagen
• CER: Moving back the finishing line: The EU's progress on climate

EU CLIMATE TARGETS

• Reaching climate neutrality – conditions & actions on how to get there
• Les ambitions climatiques de la nouvelle Commission européenne - La Fondation Robert Schuman
• Continued Swedish leadership for climate action

CARBON PRICING

• Industry can compete amid higher carbon prices, say business leaders - Carbon Pulse

CARBON FOOTPRINT

• Deputy Secretary-General, during Round Table on Minimizing Carbon Footprints, Highlights United Nations Projects to Reduce Emissions at Offices Worldwide

CLIMATE FINANCE

• Climate Finance Hits $43 Billion in 2018 But More Funds Vital to Enact Paris Accord, Deputy Secretary-General Says at Multilateral Development Banks Event - UN
• Multi-stakeholder initiative has potential to unlock EUR 4BN in financing climate action in cities
• UN Climate Action Summit: EIB and fellow MDBs commit to collectively raise annual climate finance to USD 175 billion by 2025 in response to climate crisis
• EIB President Werner Hoyer announces new climate ambitions and presents transformative initiative for urban climate finance at the UN General Assembly

AVIATION EMISSIONS

• EP Think-tank: At a Glance - ICAO Agreement on CO2 emissions from aviation

GERMAN CLIMATE PACKAGE

• Auswärtiges Amt: Deutschland mit ambitionierten Klimazielen
• Vor dem UN-Klimagipfel: Eine Einschätzung des Klimapakets durch das Wuppertal Institut
• Deutsche Bank Research zum Klimaschutzpaket: Fauler Kompromiss oder Spiegelbild der Gesellschaft?

EU COMMISSION REGISTER

• DG CLIMA
• ANNEX to the Proposal for a Council Decision Draft DECISION No 2/2019 OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED BY THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE SWISS CONFEDERATION ON THE LINKING OF THEIR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS TRADING SYSTEMS of … amending Annex I and II to the Agreement between the European Union and the Swiss Confederation on the linking of their greenhouse gas emissions trading systems

EU COUNCIL REGISTER

• St 12204 2019 Init COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Transport, Telecommunications and Energy)
• St 12308 2019 Init Preparation for the Council meeting (Environment) on 4 October 2019 Preparations for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meetings (Santiago de Chile, Chile, 2-13 December 2019) draft Council conclusions
• St 12309 2019 Init Clean Planet for all: EU's strategic long-term vision for a climate neutral economy Policy debate
• St 12360 2019 Init Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment - Mandate for negotiations with the European Parliament
• St 12360 2019 Add 1 Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment - Mandate for negotiations with the European Parliament
• St 12360 2019 Rev 1 Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment - Mandate for negotiations with the European Parliament

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