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EU announces plan to cut carbon emissions 40 per cent by 2030
2014-01-22 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The UK's green economy has today received a significant boost, after the European Commission unveiled a new package of climate and energy policies designed to slash greenhouse gas emissions 40 per cent by 2030. The long-running negotiations are understood to have gone down to the wire this morning, after a handful of commissioners pushed for a more modest series of emissions and renewable energy targets. But European Commission president José Manuel Barroso pushed through a series of targets that...
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