Belgium will not easily fit in with the “High Ambition Coalition” that was formed at the climate summit in Katowice, Poland (COP24). Flanders wants, there are only about bending and the Belgian Energy and climate plan of the federal minister Marie-Christine Marghem there is and that is only at the end of this year is expected.
A small thirty countries at the climate summit called for the pace of the fight against climate change to accelerate. The netherlands and Luxembourg, co-signatories of a Benelux declaration on the European Union for more klimaatambitie, signed the text. the
Belgium was not (yet) able to draw, in the absence of agreement of the Flemish government. “Flanders should think about this, and has not said ‘no’,” said Marghem in Poland. According to her, kept the door ajar for a subsequent signing.
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After the Flemish council of ministers of today is to hear that Flanders is only about the question will bend if the Energy – and climate plan. It does not make sense to have larger ambitions to formulate if it is not clear how that can be achieved, is the reasoning. the
The Flemish government therefore uses the same point of view as in the distribution of the klimaatinspanningen for the period from 2020 to 2030. Marghem said last week there already to want to start, but when left minister Joke Schauvliege know the national plan to wait.
