Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, March 27, 2010 9:50:17 AM
The EU has already pledged to cut emissions to 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, and to deepen the cut to 30 per cent if other rich nations make "comparable" efforts.
But a draft summit declaration on long-term economic planning seen by the German Press Agency dpa sets as the EU's goal for 2020 "reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 20 per cent compared to 1990 levels," with no reference to the 30-per-cent goal.
They should probably leave it in there; they may meet their goals simply because of the lack of any industrial production.