Brussels defends EU burden-sharing on climate change

Shortly before the opening of an EU summit dominated by climate change policies, the European Commission has re-affirmed it is not willing to change its calculations on how each member state should contribute to the union's ambitious green goals, despite complaints by some rich countries over the targets set for them by Brussels.

EU leaders are meeting this evening (13 March) to debate how to reach the green goals, which were agreed this time last year. The goals include a 20 percent cu...