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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9757

9 October 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/climate
Environment committee calls for sanctions against member states who do not meet post-2012 target

Brussels, 08/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - In Brussels on 7 October, the European Parliament environment committee gave its determined and almost unanimous backing to the targets proposed by the European Commission for sharing, among member states, the burden of the 20% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2020 (compared with 1990). But they went far too far.

They called on member states to prepare, as of now, for the -30% for 2020, to reduce the EU emissions level by at least 50% by 2035, and by...

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