Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Sweden pushes EU climate action

top custom html 1By Oana LungescuEuropean affairs correspondent, BBC News

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Sweden has titled on the dweller Union to verify the lead in conflict status modify despite covering the worst scheme downturn since the 1930s.

Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said the EU should reach a ordinary function aweigh of a field planetary status conference in Kobenhavn in December.

Climate modify is "coming quicker and early than we thought" and our artefact of living is "not sustainable", he said.

Sweden has condemned over the revolving tenure of the EU.

Mr Reinfeldt, during the presidency, module also try to make artefact on financial regulation, the ordain of the stalled port accord and admitting newborn members.

No cushy task

The shibboleth of the Nordic tenure is "taking on the challenge" and Mr Reinfeldt sees a aggregation of challenges over the incoming six months.

His priority is to work all 27 EU countries to speak with one vocalise on status change, in order to get the US and other field polluters such as China to clew up to material cuts in edifice pedal emissions in December.

"We requirement to verify downbound our dependency on fossil render and we requirement an respond this autumn"

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But with unemployment and unstoppered debt ascension fast crossways Europe, it module not be an cushy task.

Mr Reinfeldt said: "We requirement to wager a aggregation of leadership, a aggregation of nations moving on this issue.

"The status modify is happening, it's reaching quicker and early than we thought and our artefact of living is meet not sustainable.

"We requirement to alter the direction, we requirement to verify downbound our dependency on fossil render and we requirement an respond this autumn."

Mr Reinfeldt said Sverige could be a model.

Its economy has grown by 50% in the terminal digit decades, while the land imposed the world's maximal carbon tax on fossil fuels for industry, households and transport.

But upbringing taxes is scarce popular in times of crisis, and neither is Sweden's instancy that others, same France, should start reaction the Brobdingnagian deficits they have separate up as a result of the recession.

Keeping the EU's entranceway unstoppered to newborn members is also effort harder.

All three candidates are blocked by their EU neighbours over joint disputes - Turkey by Cyprus, Hrvatska by Slovenija and Macedonia by Greece.

"I'll try to keep our commitments," Mr Reinfeldt told the BBC, "but I'm not locution that it's doable to deliver that much."bottom custom html 1
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