All good, excellent stuff hey "EU environment commissioner urges to cut emissions by 30 percent Unconditional on other nations raising their limits, the EU should raise the bar to lead the way and demonstrate leadership, Stavros Dimas states. Rie Jerichow 25/11/2009 15:10 Europe should set a good example by agreeing to cut emissions by 30 percent from 1990 levels before the start of the climate change conference in Copenhagen, urges Stavros Dimas (photo above), the Environment Commissioner of the European Union.
"In my opinion, the 30 percent commitment by the European Union would be better in our negotiations... The moral pressure would be much stronger on the developed countries and developing countries alike," Mr. Dimas says, according to The New York Times.
Dimas adds that this is the best way to secure a deal that would help limit the rise in global temperatures to a maximum of two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit).
Analyses from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) show that a temperature increase of two degrees can be said to be a threshold value above which the effects of climate change would probably be more difficult to manage and would increase at a quicker pace.
Sweden's Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, said at a news conference on Monday, that the EU was "very close" to making a pledge to cut emissions by 30 percent, but was not yet ready to do so, The New York Tomes reports.
The EU has a last chance to change its commitment, when heads of state and government gather for their own year-end summit meeting during the second week of December, when the Copenhagen meeting will already be under way. (Photo: Scanpix/AFP)"
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