Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Europe’s a mess, but it’s meeting its climate goals

Washington Post: These days, the news about Europe tends to be unrelentingly negative, so here's something slightly different. The European Union is still on track to meet its climate-change goals under the Kyoto Protocol, according to new data released Wednesday. Under the Kyoto treaty, 15 European Union countries committed to reducing their overall greenhouse gases 8 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. (The other countries have individual targets, save for Malta and Cyprus.) Even though the continent's emissions...

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/europes-a-mess-but-its-meeting-its-climate-goals/2012/05/30/gJQAN8Wh1U_blog.html
Enclosure: http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/ezra-klein/StandingArt/europe%20kyoto%20emissions%20targets.JPG?uuid=f2g9bKpjEeGEwasb3-EEcg

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