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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9370

21 February 2007
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment council/climate
Council supports Commission's post-2012 objectives but wants guarantees on fairness in key for effort sharing by member states

Brussels, 20/02/2007 (Agence Europe) - EU environment ministers are supporting the objectives proposed by the European Commission for stepping up the fight against climate change after 2012. Meeting in Brussels on 20 February, they gave their support to the 30% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 for all industrial countries, to be negotiated at an international level and for a binding reduction of at least 20% as a unilateral EU objective. This agreement, however, required very...

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