|
Page 1 of 3 More developed and less developed countries are
taking opposite sides on issues like carbon dioxide reduction. Whatever
the result, it's sure to mean one thing: delays
|
ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
|
With the ink barely dry on plans by the
European Commission for fighting climate change, members of the EU have
already started a game of tug-of-war to pull the legal proposals in
their favor.
"It's most important that the national targets ... take into account
solidarity and [economic] convergence," said Arturas Paulauskas,
Environment Minister for Lithuania, one of the EU's newest and least
developed members.
The EU's climate-change plans "are not the place to deal with cohesion
and solidarity -- that is what cohesion funds and the [EU] budget are
for," retorted Hilary Benn, environment minister for Britain -- one of
the EU's richest and most developed economies.
A year ago, EU heads of government agreed that the bloc should cut its
emissions of carbon dioxide (the gas most associated with global
warming) to 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 Next > End >>
|
|
| Users' Comments |
|
Average user rating
|
|
|
