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The European Parliament confirmed Ursula von der Leyen as the first women president of the European Commission in a nail-biting vote on Tuesday that put climate change centre stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The German former defence minister scraped the majority she needed, with 383 votes to 327. Both the liberal Renew Europe and the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) groups announced they would back her nomination less than an hour before the secret ballot started.<\/p>\n

Climate change played a decisive role after liberal, socialist and green blocs all demanded von der Leyen strengthen her climate platform as a condition for their support.<\/p>\n

In a statement<\/a>, S&D said members had been “sceptical” of her candidacy but after an “intense group meeting” acknowledged she had met their core demands, including on climate action.<\/p>\n

“We will be vigilant and make sure that over the next five years she will deliver on the promises she made to us. She must remember that without us, there is no pro-European majority,” said S&D leader Iratxe Garc\u00eda.<\/p>\n

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C\u00e9line Charveriat, executive director of the Institute for European Environmental Policy, said that for the first time, climate change had become \u201ca make or break issue for garnering sufficient votes\u201d. \u201cParties other than [the conservative European People’s Party] agreed not to give a \u2018blank check\u2019\u201d to von der Leyen, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis means that climate change will become a signature issue for [von der Leyen]. She will be held personally accountable for delivering on her promises regarding climate action,\u201d Charveriat said, adding she faces an \u201cuphill battle\u201d to achieve consensus on decarbonisation measures.<\/p>\n

Following an intense fortnight of negotiations with the EU\u2019s key political groupings, von der Leyen appeared to embrace increasing the EU\u2019s emissions reduction target to 55% by 2030<\/a> \u2013 a target the EU parliament endorsed in a non-binding vote<\/a> last March.<\/p>\n

In her final proposal<\/a> to MEPs ahead of the vote, that commitment was watered down to a \u201ctwo-step approach\u201d to \u201creduce CO2 emissions by 2030 by 50, if not 55%\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Greens, the fourth largest contingent in parliament, remained unconvinced by her climate offer. Nationalists, populists and some in her centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), on the other hand, thought she had made too many concessions to the progressives. Ultimately, they did not have the numbers to thwart her victory.<\/p>\n

In a press conference ahead of the vote, Ska Keller, co-chair of the Green grouping, said von der Leyen failed to answer the Greens\u2019 political demands with concrete proposals. Her co-chair Philippe Lamberts added that they had only been given \u201cmorsels\u201d of proposals at the last minute.<\/p>\n

Bas Eickhout, a Dutch Green MEP, told von der Leyen in an earlier parliamentary session on Tuesday: “You are fiddling around with the minus 50%, minus 55% but what is Europe going to officially put on the table when [the] Paris [Agreement] officially starts in December 2020? Still unclear”.<\/p>\n

For Lola Vallejo, climate programme director at the French climate think-tank IDDRI , von der Leyen\u2019s willingness to consider increasing the EU\u2019s 2030 target to 55% was \u201cvery encouraging\u201d.<\/p>\n

Vallejo said the parliament\u2019s push for more ambitious climate plans showed that climate issues had become \u201cmainstream\u201d in Strasbourg. \u201cThis could have a lasting impact over the commission’s five-year mandate on climate and environmental issues,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She added that von der Leyen had to tread a fine line to keep the large consensus she needs without alienating her own conservative group, the EPP, which has not committed to the 55% target.<\/p>\n

Analysis:<\/strong> How Trump\u2019s climate U-turn exposed the limits of European power<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Suzana Carp, a Brussels-based campaigner at think-tank Sandbag, took a different a view. \u201cI don\u2019t think this process has raised the benchmark on climate action,\u201d she told Climate Home News.<\/p>\n

Von der Leyen\u2019s climate plan \u201cdoes not respond to the climate movement around Europe, nor does it give in to the Green agenda,\u201d she said. “[The plan] she has presented is the lowest common denominator for climate action and is aligned with the EPP, her own party.”<\/p>\n

As part of her climate package, von der Leyen pledged to present a \u201cgreen deal\u201d for Europe in her first 100 days in office but gave little indication about what the deal would entail. She committed to legislate on the bloc achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 and lead international negotiations to increase the level of ambition of other large emitters by 2021.<\/p>\n

Other measures include turning parts of the European Investment Bank into a climate bank to unlock \u20ac1 trillion of investment over the next decade, establishing a just transition fund and imposing a carbon border tax.<\/p>\n

Analysis:<\/strong> Which countries have a net zero carbon goal?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

National leaders nominated von der Leyen to replace outgoing commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, rejecting the lead candidates put forward by parliamentary blocs.<\/p>\n

She had just two weeks to present her plans to parliament and win majority support.<\/p>\n

Before the vote on Tuesday, a string of MEPs expressed concerns and anger over von der Leyen\u2019s nomination, with several S&D members saying she had provided little substance behind her headline announcements.<\/p>\n

In her closing remarks before the vote, von der Leyen said discussions on her nomination had been \u201cconstructive\u201d and \u201ccontroversial\u201d and acknowledged a \u201cfeeling of division\u201d within Europe that had to be overcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to get involved and get closer to this European Parliament,” she said. “I want to build new trust and partnership between the EU Commission and the EU Parliament.”<\/p>\n

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