KYOTO FAILURES
May 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union (EU) may like to pose as the globe's environmental crusader, setting a good example to the bad old dirty United States, but the latest figures from the European Environment Agency (EEA) - for 2001 - have shown that for a second year running, EU greenhouse gas emissions have risen.Indeed, although they are still 2.3 per cent lower than in the Kyoto Protocol base year of 1990, they were way off the EU's eight per cent reduction target for 2008-12. The worst offenders are 10 of the 15 existing Member States, (Austria, Belgium, ...
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