The EU wants to target fewer, clearer goals at the world’s annual climate summit in November, building alliances in advance to avoid a repeat of last year’s bruising talks where the bloc struggled to advance its agenda, a document showed on Monday.
The internal document, which was seen by Reuters, was prepared by the upcoming Irish presidency of the 27-nation European Union and spells out the strategy the EU should take for the United Nations’ COP31 climate summit in Turkey.
The EU’s negotiating mandate should be “shorter, sharper and more strategic” than in previous years, the document said.
“We should say fewer things, more clearly – and stand firmly behind them,” it said.
The previous global climate conference, COP30, in Brazil, ended without deals on EU priorities to accelerate cuts to planet-heating emissions and reduce fossil fuel use.
