EU sets deadline for climate change package: draft

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EU sets deadline for climate change package: draft

BRUSSELS (AFP) — EU leaders have set the end of this year as the deadline for wrapping tough negotiations on their ambitious climate change action plan, according to draft conclusions from their ongoing summit here.

"Comprehensive deliberations ... should result in an agreement on these proposals as a coherent package before the end of 2008," according to the document made available ahead of summit's second day Friday.

The plan aims to meet the 27-country European Union's over-arching goal to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide -- the main gas responsible for global warming -- by 20 percent by 2020, compared to 1990 levels.

They EU member states have committed to go to 30 percent if other countries would match them.

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