EU LAUNCHES CLIMATE CHANGE PLAN
January 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLThe European Commission has made a pitch for world leadership in the fight against climate change by calling on the 27 EU member states to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20% by 2020. The move is seen as an example to other countries of the kind of action needed in the post-Kyoto period if there should be no further international agreement for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by then. "Europe must lead the world into a post-industrial revolution leading to the development of a low-carbon economy," said Manuel Barroso, president of the ...
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