Brussels aims to set CO2 targets 10% higher

By Joshua Chaffin in Brussels and Fiona Harvey in Poznan

Scarcely had European leaders concluded their climate change package on Friday by committing themselves to a 20 per cent cut in greenhouse gases by 2020 than the European Commission was calling for much tougher targets.

Stavros Dimas, the environment commissioner, told United Nations climate talks in Poland that the target must be upped in the next year.

"A 30 per cent reduction target – this is what we should work on from now on. This is what the EU has proposed, and we are expecting other developed countries to put their cards on the table [with similarly ambitious targets]," he said.

The European Union has agreed to a 20 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. But it has pledged to raise the target to 30 per cent if a deal is reached at a conference in Copenhagen next December on a replacement for the Kyoto protocol.

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