Peter Gallagher

“Going it alone” on emis­sions tar­gets is insan­i­ty too deep even for the bureau­cra­cy that gave the world Europe’s Com­mon Agri­cul­tur­al Pol­i­cy.

“If we go alone to 30%, you will only have a faster process of de-indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion in Europe. I think we need indus­try in Europe,’ [EU Ener­gy Com­mis­sion­er Gün­ther Oet­tinger] went on. ‘We need indus­try in the UK, and indus­try means CO2 emis­sions.’ ” Extract from EurAc­tiv