Stakeholder Consultation on future Climate Change Policy

Publication date: 14 September 2004

What should be the EU's approach to the future international fight against climate change? How should EU countries work together to fight climate change after 2012, when the current Kyoto Protocol’s targets end? These questions are part of a web-based stakeholder consultation which the European Commission starts today. The consultation gives an opportunity for stakeholders (citizens, businesses, policy makers, NGOs, authorities, scientists and others) to contribute to the debate on the future of global climate policy.

The consultation will provide input to the Commission’s climate change report to the Spring Council 2005, which will discuss future global and EU climate change policy. The Commission will use the results also for its contribution to the international debate on the future international climate change regime.

All interested parties are invited to make substantive contributions through the web-based forum “Action on Climate Change post 2012.” The forum will be open for submissions until 31 October 2004.

More information about the stakeholder consultation can be found at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/climat/future_action.htm

Further steps:
The Commission also envisages holding a stakeholder conference in mid-November.