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BRUSSELS (ANA - M. Aroni) -- Greece's European Commissioner Stavros Dimas, responsible for issues concerning the environment, on Monday presented the 2nd European Programme for Climate Change during a conference taking place in Brussels.
The programme began in 2000 and refers to specific measures for dealing with unavoidable changes to the climate and the extreme weather phenomena that result.
It was created to help the EU meets the targets set in 1997 under the Kyoto Protocol, when the 15 EU member-states of that time undertook to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 8 percent up until the year 2012.
The programme seeks optimum solutions for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and gases created by road transport and air travel. It also seeks to support research and development into new, environmentally-friendly technologies and to brief the general public on these targets.
Other speakers at the conference, attended by some 450 participants, included UK Minister of State for Climate Change Elliot Morley, members of the European Parliament and representatives of private firms and non-governmental organisations.
BRUSSELS (ANA - M. Aroni) -- Greece's European Commissioner Stavros Dimas, responsible for issues concerning the environment, on Monday presented the 2nd European Programme for Climate Change during a conference taking place in Brussels.
The programme began in 2000 and refers to specific measures for dealing with unavoidable changes to the climate and the extreme weather phenomena that result.
It was created to help the EU meets the targets set in 1997 under the Kyoto Protocol, when the 15 EU member-states of that time undertook to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 8 percent up until the year 2012.
The programme seeks optimum solutions for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and gases created by road transport and air travel. It also seeks to support research and development into new, environmentally-friendly technologies and to brief the general public on these targets.
Other speakers at the conference, attended by some 450 participants, included UK Minister of State for Climate Change Elliot Morley, members of the European Parliament and representatives of private firms and non-governmental organisations.
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