Commission to review Copenhagen failings

nvironment ministers call for a report into the problems at climate conference.

The European Commission will produce a report of ‘what went wrong' at the Copenhagen climate summit to help the EU reflect on its international climate strategy.

Environment ministers meeting in Brussels today asked the Commission to come up with a report for their next meeting, in Seville on 15-17 January.

The Copenhagen talks ended in bitter disappointment for Europe, with the US declining to make the emission-reduction pledges that the EU had hoped for, while China blocked a target to slash industrialised countries' emissions by 80% by the middle of the century.

The Copenhagen accord was “a disaster” and “a really great failure that we have to learn from”, Andreas Carlgren, Sweden's environment minister and chair of today's meeting, said.

Read more | The European Voice

Labels: Climate Change, Copenhagen, European Union

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