Paris isnt enough- more reforms are needed

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working in approximately 94 countries worldwide to find solutions to poverty and injustice around the
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The European Commission risks betraying the Paris climate agreement by

suggesting that Europe is doing enough to tackle runaway climate change,
says Oxfam. The Commission today reported on the impacts of the Paris
agreement on EU climate policy. With climate change already worsening food
crises across the world, the EU has no excuse to delay tougher action on
climate change. Oxfam EU Policy Advisor on Climate Change and Global Food
Security, Lies Craeynest, said: Before the Paris climate talks, EU leaders had
committed to cut the Unions carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030 . This is
not enough to keep global warming to only 1.5 degrees . Without a clear
commitment to revise the 2030 target, the Commission is ignoring the
devastating effects that climate change is already causing throughout the
world. At least 60 million people are certain now to face worsening hunger
and poverty throughout 2016 because of drought and crop failures fuelled by
a super El Nio, a weather phenomenon that has been super-charged this
year by climate change. People living in the worst-affected regions are often
poor and therefore especially vulnerable to such weather shocks. The EU
needs to make a clear and strong revision to its 2030 target. We fear that
other countries could now follow the EU and stick to their existing modest
targets, too. The EU needs its laws to help curb climate change faster, and
to support developing countries financially so they can adapt to its inevitable
consequences. Todays proposal continues to rely on already-stretched aid
budgets rather than looking at new sources of finance for instance from the
EU emissions trading scheme.