Talking Europe hosts Pascal Canfin, the chair of the environment committee at the European Parliament. He is a former French government minister and a former director of the French branch of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). We take a look at what is coming out of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, and at the state of the EU's green transition. Canfin maintains that 80 percent of the laws planned under the EU's Green Deal should be finished by the end of the current legislative term – something he calls "massive and unprecedented".
Asked about COP28 host Dubai saying that fossil fuels should be part of climate solutions, Canfin replied: "We need to have these debates precisely in Dubai and in the Gulf. I know that a lot of NGOs or academics were calling for a boycott of the COP. I think that would have been a mistake. It’s good that this debate is happening in Dubai, and not only in Paris or in other countries that don't produce oil."
