EU states divided over jump to 30% cut in CO2

European Union member states are divided over the bloc's pledge to raise its CO2 commitment up to a 30 percent cut by 2020 in the wake of the Copenhagen UN climate summit debacle.

Environment ministers from across the bloc over the weekend met in Seville, Spain, to assess the reasons for the failure in the Danish capital in December and to map out the EU's next moves.

As part of the so-called Copenhagen Accord cobbled together by the US, China, South Africa, Brazil and India outsi...