Press Release: Climate change: Commissioner Dimas urges start of negotiations on global agreement to succeed Kyoto

To mark the second anniversary on 16 February 2007 of the Kyoto Protocol's entry into force, European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas has called for the international community to begin negotiations urgently on a comprehensive global climate change treaty that would succeed Kyoto when its targets expire in 2012. Commissioner Dimas is currently in Washington for talks with high-level US government officials and members of Congress on future global climate change action and other environmental issues. To coincide with the Kyoto anniversary the Commission is hosting a meeting of European meteorologists and television weather presenters in Brussels as part of its campaign to raise awareness of what individuals can do to help combat climate change.

European Commission: DG Communication: MEMO/07/58 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/07/58&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=fr

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