Brussels, 10/02/2003 (Agence Europe) - Opening a two-day conference in Brussels on 10 February on options allowing for greenhouse gases caused by air-conditioning to be reduced, the European Commissioner for the Environment, Margot Wallstrom told participants that their indications would be "an important input to legislation that I intend to present later this year".
At a general level, Ms. Wallstrom recalled that over a hundred countries had now ratified the Kyoto Protocol, "including...