Second meeting of "Green Weimar Triangle" on 26 February 2014
Federal Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks has invited the French Environment Minister Philippe Martin and the Polish Environment Minister Maciej Grabowski to talks in Berlin on Wednesday, 26 February. The meeting, which takes place within the framework of the so-called "Green Weimar Triangle", will focus on European and international climate policy.
In January this year the European Commission adopted an EU climate and energy policy framework for 2020 to 2030. Initial consultations on this framework with all Ministers will take place at the forthcoming EU Environment Ministers’ Council meeting on 3 March 2014. An initial reconciliation of different positions on this crucial issue will be explored in a small circle next Wednesday. Ministers will also discuss how to successfully conclude the UN Climate Conference in Paris in 2015 with a comprehensive and binding climate agreement.
Talks will be followed by a press conference of the three Ministers scheduled for 5p.m.
The Weimar Triangle is an informal foreign-policy talks and consultation forum between Germany, France and Poland. The first meeting of its kind took place in Weimar in 1991 upon invitation of the German Foreign Minister, hence the name. Since other ministries of the three countries had already been using this format to agree on EU policy issues, former Polish Environment Minister Marcin Korolec invited his colleagues to Warsaw in 2013 to the first Green Weimar Triangle on environment policy.