EU strengthens its leadership on climate
After lengthy and difficult negotiations, the EU Member States have reached agreement. The difficult question of ‘climate financing’ has been resolved and the EU’s climate package is thus complete. At the summit’s closing press conference, a delighted Fredrik Reinfeldt noted that the EU has a strong mandate for negotiation ahead of the climate change conference in Copenhagen in December.
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EU leaders agree on climate funding
Developing nations will need 100 billion euro annually from 2020 to tackle climate change, the EU says. It is still unsettled, however, on how much of that money should come from Europe.
