Germany accepts EU carbon emissions cap - Reuters

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Germany accepts EU carbon emissions cap

By Erik Kirschbaum and Paul Taylor
REUTERS

6:18 a.m. February 9, 2007

BERLIN/BRUSSELS – Germany caved in to the European Commission on Friday over its
greenhouse gas emissions plan for 2008-12, saying it would not challenge a cap
imposed by Brussels to help fight global warming.

The European Union executive, determined to uphold the credibility of the EU's
pioneering emissions trading system, demanded in November a carbon emissions limit
for Germany some 6 percent tighter than Berlin had initially proposed.

The dispute had threatened to embarrass Europe's biggest polluter, which has vowed
to make climate change a centrepiece of its twin presidencies of the European Union
and the G8.

Berlin said it had scored some undisclosed successes in return for accepting the
Commission ruling on its emissions cap.

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