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Sat 10 Oct 2009EU leaders adopt target to tackle climate change ahead of summit
EU LEADERS have adopted a common target for the Copenhagen climate change summit, but their failure to reach agreement on how European states will foot their part of the bill opened up potential for discord at the UN meeting in six weeks.
The development came as Czech president Vaclav Klaus indicated he will finally ratify the Lisbon Treaty on foot of opt-outs secured from the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the treaty. While EU leaders declared that developing countries will need €100 billion per year by 2020 to tackle climate change, they stopped short of agreeing a concrete plan to carve up their own bill.
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