EU and US should set example in climate policy - Latvian Foreign Ministry's parliamentary secretary 2021-01-25 Photo: Saeima RIGA - On January 22, the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zanda Kalnina Lukasevica, took part in an informal webex meeting on global climate diplomacy between representatives from EU Member States and John Kerry, the United States President’s Special Envoy for Climate, addressing climate diplomacy issues and exchanging views on the ways for speeding the transition to cleaner sources of energy, LETA learned from the ministry. “Latvia is delighted to see that with the first steps of the new administration, Europe and the U.S. stand united against climate change. Our unity is indispensable for both European and global security,” the Parliamentary Secretary underlined. Kalnina Lukasevica welcomed the commitment by the new United States Administration to assigning a high priority to the climate agenda, and she concurred that the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26), or the United Nations Climate Change Conference, to be held in Glasgow this coming November, must reach a global agreement which sets higher ambitions in efforts to tackle climate change.