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World needs global climate leadership from EU – and to continue UN talks
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pangea on 22/12/2009 15:19:00
 
Christian Kjaer, Chief Executive of EWEA, said: “The world needs global
climate leadership from the EU in 2010 more than ever, now that the other
super-powers have shown their lack of ambition.
"The Copenhagen Accord is the lowest common denominator which China and the
United States could agree. The text did not produce a legally binding treaty or
deliver a plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The only thing it achieved was a commitment-free text “to hold the increase in
global temperature below 2°C."  The rest of the world, including the EU which
had offered to cut carbon by 30% compared to 1990 levels if there was strong
global deal, could only take it or leave it. China and the US established a new
world order in Copenhagen.
“The European Wind Energy Association urges world leaders to work tirelessly
on reaching a legally binding international treaty as soon as possible next
year, to cut greenhouse gas emissions by a minimum of 30% by 2020. The clock is
ticking, immediate action is required, and we are running out of time,” Kjaer
said.
For more information contact:
Paolo Berrino, EWEA
paolo.berrino(at)ewea.org
+32 2 400 10 55
Source: EWEA