With just a few months left before the Copenhagen meeting on climate change in December, six European foreign ministers have pledged to address climate change through a “collective diplomatic challenge,” including a reduction of carbon emissions to 30 percent.

Foreign Ministers David Miliband of the United Kingdom, Carl Bildt of Sweden, Per Stig Moller of Denmark, Bernard Kouchner of France, Alexander Stubb of Finland, and Miguel Angel Moratinos of Spain have signed a joint letter pledging diplomatic challenge addressing climate change, as the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark draws near.

“European Foreign Ministries must make a real contribution now to the drive to achieve a deal at Copenhagen.

The European Union (EU) must show renewed leadership to help unlock the negotiations through its commitment to take ambitious mitigation action at home, and on financial and technological support to help developing countries move to a low carbon growth path,” they said in their joint letter. The six foreign ministers have pledged, among others, to decrease carbon emissions from 20 percent to 30 percent; to press for a deal at Copenhagen to keep global warming to a maximum of two degrees Celsius; and to include climate change challenges in the international agenda.