EU global warming rules will cost every British taxpayer £120 per year

Daily Mail | Jan. 23, 2008

EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso says Europeans would each pay 3 Euros (£2.24) a week for EU package to limit global warming.

The European Union plans to slash greenhouse gases by a fifth by 2020, imposing costs on major polluters and rapidly scaling up how much energy it draws from windmills, solar panels and energy crops.

European governments were urged today to play their full part in achieving the most comprehensive deal on climate change in the world.

Barroso told Euro MPs that the European Union was determined to lead the way in facing up to the most important challenge of the 21st century - reducing global pollution.

He was speaking after the Commission agreed plans to cut carbon emissions across Europe by 20 per cent compared with 1990 levels by 2020.

An plan to boost energy from renewable sources to 20 per cent of total energy use by the same deadline was also agreed.

But Friends of the Earth (FOE) attacked the plan as "a disgrace".

FoE director, Tony Juniper, said: "Europe wants to be a world leader in tackling global warming, but its carbon reduction target is far weaker than the one agreed at last month's UN climate summit in Bali. The solutions already exist, what we lack is political ambition and courage. The EU climate plan is a disgrace."

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