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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Kate Abnett

EU to urge big polluters to toughen climate pledges by COP27 summit - draft

FILE PHOTO: Smoke and steam billows from Belchatow Power Station, Europe's largest coal-fired power plant operated by PGE Group, near Belchatow, Poland November 28, 2018. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

The European Union will urge the world's biggest economies to improve their targets to fight climate change ahead of this year's U.N. climate summit and warn that states' current efforts fall short, according to a draft document seen by Reuters.

Despite a raft of new emissions-cutting commitments countries announced at last year's COP26 climate summit, "global climate action remains insufficient", the EU said in a draft of its negotiations mandate for the COP27 summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, in November.

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