Climate change - Strategy light on specifics

ENVIRONMENT Minister Dick Roche yesterday launched the Government’s National Climate Change Strategy for 2007-2012.

Climate change - Strategy light on specifics

He emphasised the importance of the strategy in meeting this country’s commitments under the Kyoto Protocol.

The target is in line with the agreement of EU leaders to reduce emissions to 20% below 1990s levels by 2020, but the National Climate Change Strategy looks beyond the Kyoto period, especially in relation to renewable energy targets and investment in public transport.

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