EU Parliamentary Panel Urges 2020 Carbon Dioxide Target

Environment News Service, November, 2006 by staff

STRASBOURG, France (ENS) — --> The European Parliament's Industry and Energy Committee wants the EU to be the most energy efficient economy in the world by 2020. In a report adopted unopposed on Thursday, the panel called for binding targets to cut emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and increase renewable energy sources.

The 51 member committee, chaired by Giles Chichester of the UK, says that to tackle climate change, European leaders should agree within the next year on a binding 20 percent reduction target for emissions of carbon dioxide by 2020 and an indicative one for 2050. A Member of the European Parliament since 1994, Giles Chichester represents Britain's Conservative and Unionist Party. He is a member of the Group of the European People's Party...

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