EU cities launch climate-change battle plan

Brussels - London, Berlin, Venice and Warsaw were among almost 100 European cities to sign up Tuesday to an EU campaign for fighting global warming. 'Cities are becoming the places to deliver new ideas and innovative projects against global warming ... Cities must therefore become leading actors for implementing sustainable energy policies,' EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs said. The Covenant of Mayors, as the plan has been dubbed, commits the city councils involved to cutting emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) by more than 20 per cent by 2020. The pledge goes one better than a promise made by the EU's national governments in March 2007 to cut their CO2 emissions to 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020. It is to be coordinated by the EU's executive, the European Commission, which is expected to help cities share ideas on how best to fight global warming. Some of the cities involved have already made their own steps towards dealing with CO2 emissions. London, for example, pioneered the use of congestion charging, a scheme which makes motorists pay to enter the city centre. Others, however, face an uphill struggle to reduce their CO2 impact. Former-communist cities such as Warsaw and Riga have seen an explosion in construction and car use in recent years, and their emissions have risen accordingly. © 2008 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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SP4: It's like Richard NixonJan 31st, 2008 - 00:37:22

...as a used car salesman....

Is there anyone out there that is actually buying this sham of bibical proportions?

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FranzFeb 5th, 2008 - 02:17:23

The Euros tryed the same con job years ago , trying to credit themselves for shutting down massive polluters that the rest of the western world shut down 20 years before they did .

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