New EU States: Recalculate CO2 Targets
A group of new members of the European Union are pressing the EU to recalculate CO2 emission targets, to take into account their progress in previous years. Currently the year 2005 is used to base calculations on. Hungary, which is spearheading the effort, insists that it is unfair to ignore previous gains by the former Soviet-states. It wants the EU commission to return to 1990 as the baseline year for comparisons. EU environment ministers will be meeting next week to discuss the issue.
Hungary is spearheading a push by several new EU member states to get the EU’s CO2 emission targets recalculated.
Hungary argues that using 2005 figures as the basis for cutting CO2 emissions fails to recognise the progress made by ex-Soviet bloc countries before then.
In January the European Commission set out plans for cutting carbon dioxide emissions based on 2005 levels.
Administrator @ June 2, 2008
the kyoto treaty is irrelevant anyway without China, the US, and India on board. it needs to be replaced so we can get those countries on board as well. no point as it is now.
I believe it’s rather simplistic to call the Kyoto Treaty irrelevant. It certainly has its problems, but as you know it’s the best we have at this point in time.
Isn’t it funny how people complain about the kyoto treaty yet are not coming up with better solutions themselves?
Dexter