Thursday, October 25, 2012

EU likely to exceed Kyoto carbon-cut target

Bloomberg: European Union governments will probably reduce emissions outside the bloc`s carbon market by 8.8 per cent more than required under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, according to projections published today on an EU website. The oversupply of reductions among the 15 older members of the bloc will amount to 1.03 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in the five years through 2012 compared with a limit of 11.8 billion tons, according to the data. That includes 419 million tons of United Nations...

URL: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/eu-likely-to-exceed-kyoto-carboncut-target-20121025-286kt.html

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