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- From: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk (Michael!)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: NEWS: A White Paper for a Dark Future? (EC Transport Policy)
- Keywords: environment press transportation
- Message-ID: <7096@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 13:04:26 GMT
- References: <Greenpeace.28Dec1992.1723@naughty-peahen> <Greenpeace.28Dec1992.1732@naughty-peahen>
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- Organization: Magic Michael's Mushroom Factory.
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- In article <Greenpeace.28Dec1992.1732@naughty-peahen>, jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Greenpeace via Jym Dyer) writes:
- |> [Greenpeace Press Release from Greenbase -- Redistribute Freely]
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- |> A WHITE PAPER FOR A DARK FUTURE?
- |>
- |> BRUSSELS, December 7, 1992 (GP) Today, Transport Commissioner
- |> Karel Van Miert will present the European Commission's white
- |> paper "The Future Development of the Common Transport Policy"
- |> to the Council of Transport Ministers. This white paper,
- |> meant to be the outline of a Community framework for sustainable
- |> mobility, does not solve the basic contradictions in the
- |> Community's approach to transport policy, and will therefore be
- |> an impediment rather than a means to achieve the Community's
- |> goal of stabilizing its CO2 emissions.
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- |> This stands in blatant contrast to the need to reduce CO2
- |> emissions by 80% in order to prevent uncontrollable climate
- |> change -- as recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on
- |> Climate Change (IPCC) -- and jeopardizes the Community's
- |> declared goal of stabilizing CO2 emissions by the year 2000
- |> at 1990 levels.
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- when did the IPCC change their recommendations from 60% to 80% cut?
- Cut to 80% of 199? levels? And do you have a reference for the IPCC
- report (and is it easy/worth reading)?
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- Thanks in advance,
- Michael
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