Turning up the heat on our environmental targets

The lobby for carbon taxes is growing in strength, writes Claire O’Sullivan.

Turning up the heat on our environmental targets

FOR all our talk about green issues, we have largely ignored the Kyoto protocol (but remember the European indignation when the Bush regime dismissed the talks in 2001).

This week, director of the Environmental Protection Agency, Mary Kelly, made it clear that meeting the Kyoto 2012 and EU 2020 targets will be “extremely challenging” and called for the campaign to reduce domestic emissions to be intensified.

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