Transatlantic divisions over how best to tackle climate change could put a chill on a key EU-US summit meeting today, overshadowing expected progress on trade and air travel issues.
EU leaders will be flying to Washington to meet the Bush administration with a view to further boosting the € 2.25 trillion transatlantic economic relationship and debating key areas of cooperation, including climate change, energy security and foreign policy issues.
Last month, EU heads of state and government adopted an ambitious energy-climate change package, that commits them to cutting CO2 emissions by at least 20% by 2012, and have since been pushing hard for other large economic powers, including the US, China and India to agree to comparable reductions.
The summit was originally seen as an opportunity for the EU and the US to align their positions on climate change in the run up to the G8 gathering in June and the conference of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) at the end of the year.
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