EU bids to set new emissions target

EU environment ministers will tomorrow try to agree that they should cut greenhouse gas emissions at least 20% by 2020, paving the way for Europe to seek deeper reductions from other industrialised nations.

The EU’s 27 nations may be forced to delay the final word until a March summit of EU leaders, however, as Poland and Hungary threaten to veto a deal that would make the target mandatory, according to an anonymous EU diplomat.