Sandbag: Europe risks going backwards on climate change unless emissions targets are increased

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Europe risks going backwards on climate change unless emissions targets are increased

posted by Damien on 10th Jun 2013

As the Bonn Climate Conference continues this week, new analysis from Sandbag estimates that Europe's 2012 emissions fell 27% below 1990 levels once offsets surrendered into the EU ETS are factored in. This threatens to render Europe's current pledge to reduce emissions 20% by 2020 irrelevant.[1] [2]