State to push EU for further CO2 cuts

The Irish Government will push for further cuts in greenhouse gas emissions at the European Council meeting in Brussels next month.

Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern said the Government would campaign for bigger reductions in carbon emissions, even in the wake of EU commitments this week to improve its targets.

Mr Ahern said he and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern would seek the following targets at the biannual meeting of Europe’s political leaders in the Belgian capital on March 8 and 9: