BRUSSELS, June 1 – Recent United Nations climate conferences have not produced the bold measures that researchers believe are essential to combat global warming, according to the European Union’s climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra, who made the remarks on Monday.
Speaking at a Politico-sponsored event in Brussels, Hoekstra stated: “If you look at what the problem actually needs and where the bar should then be, and what most of the COPs of the last five, six, seven, eight years have delivered, then you just have to admit that that was underwhelming.”
The commissioner emphasized that while work should continue at these international climate conferences, where approximately 200 nations make decisions through consensus, there’s also value in having smaller coalitions of countries that are prepared to advance more quickly in addressing global warming.
