{"value":{"id":1148109,"memberId":4686,"member":null,"memberRole":"Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Minister for Climate Change","uin":"HLWS1810","dateMade":"2019-10-03T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":201,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy","title":"Pre-October EU Environment Council","text":"<p>The next EU Environment Council will take place on 4 October, in Luxembourg. I will attend, representing the UK. The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform of the Scottish Government, Roseanna Cunningham, will also attend.</p><p>On climate items, the main focus will be a debate and adoption of Council conclusions on the EU’s preparations for the 25<sup>th</sup> session of the Conference of the Parties (COP25) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to be held in Santiago de Chile, Chile, on 2-13 December 2019. There will then be a policy debate on the proposed EU long-term strategy on climate, ‘Clean Planet for all: EU’s strategic long-term vision for a climate neutral economy’.</p><p>On environment items, there will be a debate and adoption of two Council conclusions: one on the EU’s 8<sup>th</sup> Environmental Action Programme and the other on the framework for a circular and sustainable economy.</p><p>Any other business (AOB) will include information from the Commission and the Presidency on three items:</p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>Current legislative proposal (information from the Presidency): Common techical requirements for the type approval of motor vehicles and their replacement parts with regard to emissions from light passenger and commercial vehicles; and</li><li>Communication on stepping up EU action to protect and restore the world’s forests (information from the Commission); and</li><li>Reports on main recent international meetings (information from the Presidency and the Commission): 18<sup>th</sup> Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 18) to the Convention on International Trade in Endagered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Geneva, 17-28 August 2019.</li></ul><p> </p><p>There are currently three Member State-led AOBs:</p><ul><li>Transition to a fleet of zero emission passenger cars (information from the Danish delegation);</li><li>Regulation on taxonomy sustainable finance (information from the German, Luxembourg, and Austrian delegations); and</li><li>7<sup>th</sup> High-Level Dialogue Meeting of the China-Europe Water Platform, Guimarães, 7-8 November 2019 (information from the Portuguese delegation).</li></ul><p> </p>","house":"Lords","noticeNumber":0,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":true,"linkedStatements":[{"linkedStatementId":1148108,"linkType":"JointStatement","linkDate":"2019-10-03T00:00:00"}],"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1148109","method":"GET"}]}