Second European Climate Change Programme
WECF and Life e. V. participate in interest group conference.
17.11.2005 |Sascha Gabizon
Stakeholder conference 24 October 2005, Brussels
Christelle Otto (European Environmental Bureau)
The ECCP was established in June 2000 to help identify the most environmentally and cost-effective EU measures enabling the EU to meet its target under the Kyoto Protocol, namely an 8 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2008-2012. The conference launched the Commission’s second phase of the ECCP.
In the Plenary Session, Commissioner Stavros Dimas for the Environment took a positive stock of the first phase of the ECCP and mentioned some examples of successful measures that have been taken, one of which is the European Union Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS), a strongly market-oriented instrument that commenced operation in January 2005. He pointed out the importance of pro-actively taking further steps to adapt to the effects of climate change; this involvement should also go beyond the obligations under the Kyoto Protocol.
Download the full article by the EEB.
Read the letter from WECF and Life e. V. to Environment Commissioner Dimas.
