Interview: Green MEP Bas Eickhout on COP25 and how parliament is 'getting its act together' on climate action

The next few weeks are a critical time for Europe's climate policy, with the EU executive expected to outline next month its plans for a European Green Deal that puts environment at the heart of policy making in Brussels. At the same time, EU negotiators will be in Madrid for the 25th conference of parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – the second to last before the Paris Agreement enters its implementation phase in a little over a year.