BBC NEWS | Europe | EU leaders face climate challenge
BBC NEWS | Europe | EU leaders face climate challenge
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Printable version EU leaders face climate challenge The Eggborough power plant in Yorkshire, England Some countries are reluctant to switch from fossil fuel power plants European leaders are expected to commit their countries to tough new emissions targets at a European Union summit focused on tackling global warming.
Across Europe leaders have been stressing the urgency of action - but now they have to make good on all the talk, he says.
At a G8 summit later in the year, which she will lead, she said she would be able to say: “Europe has taken an important step of its own and now others - the USA, China, India and the major developing countries - naturally must follow.”
A European Commission proposal - that 20% of EU energy consumption should be met by renewable sources by 2020 - is therefore thought less likely to be adopted at the two-day summit.
France, which depends heavily on nuclear power, is opposed, saying that, too, should be considered a clean source of energy.
The EU was urged to take global leadership of the issue by the former US vice-president and environmental activist Al Gore, who was also in Brussels.
