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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9400
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/climate

Australia has no lessons to learn from the EU - Commission responds that the EU respects its commitments and is only inviting Australia to ratify the Kyoto Protocol

Brussels, 03/04/2007 (Agence Europe) - Accusing the pot of calling the kettle black, Australia says that rather than berating it for not ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, the EU should look at itself and respect its own greenhouse gas emission reduction targets which it is failing to do at present.

This is the essence of the message of Australian prime minister John Howard in response to comments by EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas in his address opening the Intergovernmental Climate...

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