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Published Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 10:00
by
taipale 
in Save our planet (647 views and 5 comments)
Best regards from
Bali. I was there last week to organize and speak in
two side events on behalf of the Ministry of the Environment of
Finland. The topic in both of the events was to highlight the
energy and emission savings potential of buildings and
construction. Big.
Now, it is time to focus on Copenhagen, where the new climate
protocol should be finalized and agreed upon in 2009. This is a
huge challenge not only for the City of Copenhagen and Denmark
hosting the meeting, but to Sweden’s EU Presidency and to the
European Union as a whole.
The EU needs it own “roadmap” towards Copenhagen, making sure that
the EU not only upholds but strengthens its position as the world
leader in progressive and innovative climate policies. This means
including all aspects of sustainable use of energy, such as energy
for development, fair mechanisms of technology transfer, and decent
work. This also requires that the European Union is unanimous and
strong in its positions.
The EU should use its best diplomacy, most determined political
cooperation, and financial bilateral mechanisms to make certain
that developing countries, China and India in specific, will play a
fair but...
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Tags: climate change, CO2, environment, renewable energy
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