EU Commission limits carbon-dioxide emissions

According to an EU Commission report, most member states are trying to avoid reducing CO2 emissions. Björn Sundell advises: "Nine out of ten countries will now be forced by the commission to revise their emissions plans, Germany and Lithuania included. The EU thus becomes the first region in the world to try, using emissions trading, to limit the discharge of carbon dioxide. The model should be up and functioning as of 2008. And if it actually works, it can be a model for other countries. The commission will have to be tough, but fair. Tough, to ensure emissions trading leads to investment in the environment; fair, to stop member countries from use creative accounting to dodge the Kyoto protocol."

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