The EU prefers “no deal to a bad deal” at the COP27 climate talks in Egypt, European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans said today.

“We must move forward, not backward, and all (EU) ministers (…) are ready to leave if we do not have a result in line with the expectations of the world – first of all, to do something about this climate crisis,” – he emphasized.

However, Timmermans told reporters that “we believe that a positive result can be achieved today”, although he added that “we are concerned about some of the things that we have seen and heard over the last, say, 12 hours.”

Vice-President of the Commission and Head of the EU Climate Policy Division. he emphasized that the goal of the Europeans is to keep alive the goal of limiting the increase in the Earth’s temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial era.

In addition, in his Twitter post, Timmermans noted: “EU. united by the desire to move forward and build on what we agreed on in Glasgow”, referring to last year’s COP26 conference held in Scotland.

“Our message to our partners is clear: we cannot accept a 1.5 degree target to die here and now,” he added.

Negotiations at this year’s UN climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh are tricky, prompting Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, president of COP27, to announce that his work will be extended at least until today, when it should have been completed last year. Friday evening.

Shukri today confirmed that he would give the delegates from the nearly 200 countries gathered in Egypt more time to review the texts, urging them to “be at their best”, noting that he knows there are many “dissatisfied” among them.

“The question now is the will of the countries. It is countries that should rise to the occasion and take responsibility for finding common ground,” he stressed.

At the same time, the president of COP27 stressed that the conference’s final announcement “supports the 1.5 degree target.”

The official draft final statement of the meeting, released yesterday, confirms previous commitments to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. However, it did not include requests from some countries, including the EU. and the UK for a comprehensive agreement that would commit countries to more ambitious efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

There was also no reference to the Indian and EU proposal in the draft. ask countries to limit the use of all fossil fuels, not just coal. The proposal was opposed by resource-rich countries, mostly in Africa.

The text released yesterday did not address other issues, including a major point of contention between rich and poor countries: compensation for states already particularly hard hit by the effects of climate change.

Source: APE-ME, AFP, REUTERS.