EU Leaders Agree to Cut Greenhouse Gases
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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 ...Comment
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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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EU leaders on Saturday clinched a deal on Europe&#39;s future, agreeing the shape of a treaty to streamline the expanded bloc after striking a compromise with tough-talking Poland in all-night talks.
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EU leaders are edging closer to a deal on binding targets for renewable energy use, sources in Brussels say.
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The European Union can make its promised cuts in greenhouse emissions, though some countries may fall short, analysts say.
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European leaders are set to commit their countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions at a European Union summit focused on energy and the climate.Comment
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European and Asian foreign ministers agreed to set a 2009 deadline to complete negotiations on a new international climate change pact to limit greenhouse gases
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Leaders of the world's major powers agreed today to pursue "substantial reductions" in greenhouse gas emissions but stopped short of committing themselves to specific numerical targets in apparent deference to U.S. opposition.
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The United States agreed yesterday to "seriously consider" a European plan to combat global warming by cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050. The deal averted a trans-Atlantic deadlock at a meeting here of the Group of 8 industrial nations.
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Thirteen countries agreed yesterday to join a global plan proposed by the Bush administration to curb methane emissions by capturing the greenhouse gas and using it as an energy source before it is released into the atmosphere.
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European Union leaders were poised on Friday to endorse deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions while leaving each member country a degree of flexibility in how to achieve that goal.
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European Union transport ministers approve a plan to make airlines part of a carbon trading scheme.
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European and Asian leaders pledged Monday to set new carbon dioxide emissions targets that go beyond those now set for 2012 under the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol.
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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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Making progress The European Commission has agreed to reduce carbon emissions by 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020. The agreement was announced at a climate change summit in Brussels.â¦
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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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Industrial nations agreed a compromise at U.N. climate talks on Friday that stiff 2020 targets for greenhouse gas cuts would be useful pointers for future work on a new climate treaty, delegates said.