As world leaders gather in Paris to hammer out a global agreement to fight climate change, a delegation of 15 MEPs heads to the COP21 talks this week to help obtain a successful result. The MEPs present include Italian EPP member Giovanni La Via, chair of the delegation and the environment committee, and German S&D member Matthias Groote, vice-chair of the delegation.

The Parliament says that the agreement reached must be legally binding and ambitious from the outset, with five-year commitment periods. In a resolution voted on in October MEPs also proposed that a share of revenues from the EU carbon market allowances should be earmarked for climate finance, and that aviation and shipping sectors should initiate measures to curb their emissions.

Live updates with quotes, photos and videos from Paris can be found on our Storify page. More photos from the delegation’s activities at COP21 are also available on Parliament's Flickr and Instagram pages, with daily updates on Facebook too. You can also add "europarl" on Snapchat to find more live pictures and videos, while all tweets on EU activities at COP21 can be found with the hashtag #United4Climate.

In addition we will also be covering it on our Reddit and LinkedIn pages.

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