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Europeans urge Obama to adopt medium-term climate targets
Source: Copyright 2009, New York Times
Date: March 4, 2009
Byline: JEAN-MARIE Macabre
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While pleased with "encouraging signs" from Washington on global warming, the European Union is urging the Obama administration to adopt midterm targets for greenhouse gas reductions.
Stavros Dimas, E.U. commissioner for environment, found President Obama's pledge to reduce emissions 80 percent by 2050 -- as well as Obama's decision to create a cap-and-trade system and to earmark in his budget funds from the auctioning of that system -- "encouraging."
"That's very interesting, very encouraging, because it shows the determination of President Obama to go ahead with fighting climate change," he said. Dimas also said he approved of the Obama administration's determination to work within a U.N. framework.
"But this means that [the Americans] also have to put midterm targets on the table. They still have some time to do it, but it has to be done if we're to have a ratifiable agreement in Copenhagen," said Dimas. "We called for a 30 percent reduction from developed countries as a group. For the United States, it could be more, or it could be less."
"It appears that the ambitions of the United States administration are very high," added the E.U. commissioner, insisting that the ...
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