Experts from several organisations and EU institutions say that the reform of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) will not enable the EU to meet the targets agreed in the Paris Agreement.
At the Paris climate conference in December 2015, 195 countries adopted the first-ever universal, legally-binding global climate deal to keep the increase in global temperature well below 2°C.
The ECT is an international agreement that grants cross-border cooperation in the energy sector - it was sig...
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Elena is EUobserver's editor-in-chief. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.