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World leaders should keep working on carbon cuts
Published 22.12.2009 12:40:49 by John Bradbury
Despite the failure to secure a legally binding agreement from the Copenhagen climate change conference the leaders of the European offshore wind industry say the European Union should now take a leader on getting a global agreement on reducing carbon emissions. “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,” declared Christian Kjaer, chief executive of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
He described the Copenhagen Accord, the agreement which did come out of the Copenhagen conference, as “...the lowest common denominator which China and the United States could agree.”
And he added: “The text did not produce a legally binding treaty or deliver a plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.” But he said the Accord did manage to provide a “...commitment-free text to hold the increase in global temperature below 2° C.”
The renewable energy group leader went on to urge on behalf of the EWEA for “... 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,” he underlined.
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