From Times Online: Tougher economic times cannot be a pretext for abandoning climate change targets. The climate has changed. There can now be no doubt. Change is happening and it is definitely man-made: the changed financial climate is a plausible pretext for any nation that wishes to renege on its environmental promises.
Last March EU leaders agreed to a target of reducing CO2 emissions by 20 per cent by 2020 on 1990 levels. Now, in advance of Wednesday's EU energy summit, the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, is leading a retreat. He is likely to resist a reform to the trading-emissions scheme by which EU governments would be forced to buy the right to emit carbon dioxide. Mr Tusk, echoed by Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German Foreign Minister, was quite explicit that the international financial crisis was the culprit..... Full Article: Source
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