The Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA), est. 2010, is a

Directorate-General Within the European Union (EU), Directorates-General are departments with specific zones of responsibility. Within the European Commission specifically, Directorates-General are the equivalent of national-level Ministry (government department), m ...

of the

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the primary Executive (government), executive arm of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with a number of European Commissioner, members of the Commission (directorial system, informall ...

responsible for EU's international negotiations on climate, development and implementation of the EU Emissions Trading System and production of the " European Green Deal" transformation plan. As of 2023 it is headed by Kurt Vandenberghe. The 2022 Commissioner was Frans Timmermans (DG head Mauro Petriccione). The DG is closely related to the Directorate General for Environment and Directorate General for Energy. In 2020 it had 209 employees.

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