EU parliament to assess climate change

STRASBOURG: MEPs have voted to set up a new committee on climate change which will spend the next 12 months examining the extent of the global warming phenomenon.

The decision comes on the same day as Green MEPs published a report showing the increasing CO2 footprint left by parliament’s two seats.

The committee is expected to be headed by heavyweight MEPs with a strong track record in environmental issues.

Italian Socialist Guido Sacconi – who steered the controversial REACH chemicals law through parliament – is likely to be nominated as chair of the committee.

The German centre-right deputy Karl-Heinz Florenz, until recently chair of the environment committee, is likely to be named as rapporteur, this site has learned.

The committee, which will consist of 60 members, will meet for the first time on 10 May.

It will assess the EU’s future policy on climate change ahead of new negotiations due in 2012, as well as attempting to evaluate the current state of climate change.

It will publish its report in May 2008. 

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