The European Union supports any call to phase out fossil fuel use, EC climate policy chief Frans Timmermans said, commenting on India's bid to include such a call in the final COP27 deal, Reuters reported.

"We are in support of any call to phase down all fossil fuels," Timmermans said at a press conference.

"But we also have to make sure that this call does not diminish the earlier agreements we had on phasing down coal, so if it comes on top of what we already agreed in Glasgow, then the EU will support in this proposal."