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Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN body on climate change, praised the EU for its climate deal (Photo: Violaine Martin / UNFCCC)

UN welcomes EU climate deal

The UN on Friday (24 October) welcome the climate and energy deal agreed by EU leaders at a summit in Brussels.

The agreement “provides valuable momentum towards the Paris 2015 global climate agreement” and “opens the door to greater ambition by all countries”, Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said in a statement.

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Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN body on climate change, praised the EU for its climate deal (Photo: Violaine Martin / UNFCCC)

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