EU leaders back plan to combat climate change
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European leaders gave strong backing Thursday to an ambitious plan to combat climate change, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, but cautioned work is still needed on a key element - binding targets for ...Comment
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ESSEN, Germany  - President George W. Bush's plan to combat climate change got a cool reception in Europe on Friday where the European Union's environment chief dismissed it as unambitious and "the classic U.S. line".
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European Union leaders on Friday endorsed binding targets to cut greenhouse gases and ensure a fifth of the bloc's energy comes from green power such as wind turbines and solar panels.Comment
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ESSEN, Germany  - President George W. Bush's plan to combat climate change got a cool reception in Europe on Friday where the European Union's environment chief dismissed it as unambitious and the "classic" U.S. line.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- EU leaders agreed Friday on a bold set of 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 10 percent of European cars will run on biofuels.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore urged the EU to lead the fight against global warming ahead of a summit that is due to pledge to slash greenhouse gases but leave key ...Comment
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The EU and environmental groups hail the Russian cabinet's decision to back the Kyoto climate change treaty.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 4 (IPS) - Air travel needs to be quickly included in a  European Union programme for addressing climate change if pledges  on curbing greenhouse gas releases are to be kept, a new study  has found.
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European Union leaders will put their weight behind ambitious goals to fight climate change today in a move they hope will spur similar action from the United States and other big polluters worldwide.Comment
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European Union leaders seeking tougher action to curb climate change clinched a deal Thursday on a 20 per cent unilateral cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 compared to 1990 levels - but remained split on ...Comment
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European countries hurled down a challenge at a UN summit on climate change here Monday, calling for the world to set a goal of halving greenhouse-gas pollution by 2050.
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Europe embarked on a bold path to fight climate change Friday, agreeing that a fifth of the energy used by the 27-nation bloc by 2020 will come from renewable sources like the sun and the wind, and challenging ...Comment
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Dec. 14 -- European leaders, angered by the growing impasse here over the U.S. refusal to accept any specific targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, threatened Thursday to boycott the parallel climate negotiations that President Bush launched with great fanfare in...
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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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Europe embarked on a bold path to fight climate change Friday, agreeing that a fifth of the energy used by the 27-nation bloc by 2020 will come from renewable sources such as the sun and the wind, and ...Comment
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Senior officials from the European Union, three U.S. states, Canada, Norway and New Zealand launched an international effort Monday to fight climate change by building a global carbon trading market.
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European and Asian leaders pledged Monday to keep cutting greenhouse gases after the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.