The EU will meet with the Kyoto Protocol targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases by 2010, two years before the deadline, a commission report stated on Thursday (1 December).
Emissions from the 15 EU pre-enlargement countries will be reduced to 9.3 percent below 1990 levels by 2010, the report shows.
The Kyoto Protocol, a global environmental agreement which is currently being discussed in a 180 nation assembly in Canada, requires the 15 nations that were EU members bef...
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