Brussels, 02/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - The day after the opening of the ninth international conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 9, Milan, 1-12 December), the European Environment Agency (EEA) published a report stressing that, unless it changes its policy, the prospect of the European Union keeping its commitments under the Kyoto Protocol is not encouraging. It simply adds to the uncertain future of this international instrument on...