ENVIRONMENT:  Europe Goes for Bigger Cuts in Emissions
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BRUSSELS, Mar 9 (IPS) - European heads of state have agreed to cut   greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent from  1990 levels by the  year 2020.
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EU environment ministers are to try to agree on cutting harmful emissions by 20% from 1990 levels by 2020.
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Top environmental groups warned Tuesday at an international conference on climate change that governments must work more aggressively to cut greenhouse gases that cause global warming.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has launched a new initiative to cut energy waste and pollution across the 27 countries in which it operates.
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European Union states debated how far they are willing to go to fight climate change on Tuesday as the 27-nation bloc forms what could become the world's most ambitious strategy to curb global warming.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged the European Union to lead the way in the fight against climate change.Comment
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SCORCHING summers, hotter than that of 2003, could become more common in Europe by the middle of this century. The risk has more than doubled because of human activity producing increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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COPENHAGEN -- Rising sea levels, disappearing glaciers in the Alps, and more deadly heat waves are coming for Europeans because of global warming, Europe's environmental agency warned yesterday.
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E.U. officials told leading automakers to make deep cuts in emissions or face fines that could reach billions of euros. But automakers promised a fight.
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The European Union has found new partners in its campaign against global warming: weather forecasters.
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The chief European Union negotiator at a United Nations conference on climate change said new talks under consideration could allow countries to expand the ways they meet reductions in greenhouse gases mandated by the Kyoto Protocol.
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The European Commission moved forward with a landmark emissions trading system on Wednesday by approving eight national plans that allocate how much carbon dioxide (CO2) industrial plants are allowed to emit.
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The European Parliament's industry committee backs proposals to sharply cut CO2 emissions from cars.
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Investor's Business Daily - The European Union agreed on measures to fight global warming, pledging that a fifth of the bloc's energy will come from green power sources such as wind turbines and solar panels by 2020 and that 10% of European cars will run on biofuels. The binding accord, the 1st to go beyond the 35-nation Kyoto Protocol in its targets for greenhouse gas emissions cuts, does not include an enforcement mechanism.
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European Union leaders resolved on Friday to slash greenhouse gas emissions and switch to renewable fuels, challenging the world to follow its lead in fighting climate change.
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The EU is to set carbon limits under the next phase of the European Trading Scheme, a  tool to tackle global warming.
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Europeâs farmers are beginning to grow crops that can be turned into fuels meant to produce fewer emissions than gas or oil.