EU insists on UN climate leadership

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"EU insists on UN climate leadership

The EU is insisting that any global agreement on climate change must come under the aegis of the UN, FT Deutschland reports.

At a meeting in Essen on 2 June, the EU’s environment ministers agreed that the central goal of the 7-8 June G8 summit should be to convince the US to join the UN Kyoto negotiations – in a clear signal that the EU is not convinced by the alternative approach proposed last week by US president George W Bush."