'Ambition gap': EU wants COP26 to decry chasm between climate promises and action

The European Union (EU) wants the final document of the UN COP26 climate summit in Glasgow to denounce insufficient ambition in the fight to reduce greenhouse gases.

The European Union (EU) wants the final document of the UN COP26 climate summit in Glasgow to denounce insufficient ambition in the fight to reduce greenhouse gases, according to a German government paper seen by Reuters.

The EU wants the document to highlight the "ambition gap" between the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to fight climate change and the goal to limit global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, according to the intermediate summary of the German delegation.