Saturday, March 05, 2011

EU backs away from 30% emissions target, leak shows


The European Commission will not call for tougher targets on carbon emmissions despite analysis showing doing so would be cost-effective.

On Tuesday the commission will unveil a road-map on climate and energy policy.

Its own analysis said that an EU target of a 25% cut by 2020 could easily be met, and would be economically better than the existing target of 20%.

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