Brussels, 23/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission is suggesting that in 2005 the EU starts applying the three Kyoto Protocol flexible mechanisms for combatting climate change, three years before the Protocol comes into force (in 2008, assuming Russia ratifies it, see yesterday's EUROPE, p.9). Flexible mechanisms is the word given to market-based mechanisms whereby industrialised countries can achieve some of their greenhouse gas emission reduction targets cost-effectively by...