On Oct. 14, a meeting of EU member-state environment ministers will take place in Luxembourg, in an attempt to arrive at a unified EU position on the environment in advance of the UN meeting on climate change to take place in Warsaw in Nov. and Dec. Of chief concern at the Oct. meeting, according to an official document described by Reuters, is the prospect of the UN making renewed commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 2020. Europe is already well on its way to meeting its own 2020 targets, but the document indicated that further efforts might be key to keeping up momentum as the UN looks to strike a new global climate change deal at Paris in 2015. "Enhancing pre-2020 mitigation ambition will pave the way for an ambitious 2015 international agreement," read the document.
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