Europe stands strong on environmental policies despite financial crisis
Articles — By forcechange on October 17, 2008 4:08 pm
At a time when we’ve been wondering whether Europe would follow the same foolish path the U.S. has traditionally taken on deferring energy and climate action out of fear of economic costs, the UK announced that they would actually be increasing their target emissions cuts. The British government declared that it would aim to reduce emissions by 80% by 2050. This is up from the prior goal of a 60% reduction. (However, aviation and shipping emissions are not included in these targets.)
Additionally, the whole European Union agreed to stick to their plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020. This was in spite of the objection of a number of member states who complained the regulations could prove too burdensome on their economies. French President Nicolas Sarkozy stated, “The deadline on climate change is so important that we cannot use the financial and economic crisis as a pretext for dropping it.”
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