CZECHS READY TO DO BATTLE OVER CLIMATE CHANGE LAW

BY KEITH NUTHALL THE INCOMING early 2009 European Union (EU) presidency of the Czech Republic will push hard to secure agreement over the EU's proposed climate change package, should the current French presidency fail to broker a deal in December. Prague's climate change envoy James Hunt (NOTE - NAME IS CORRECT - NOT CZECH) has told a Paris conference that then "the Czech presidency [would] make every effort to achieve adoption in the early months of 2009." Speaking at a 'Euractiv climate change event', Hunt also sketched out some potential elements of ...


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