Climate change: EU leaders reach compromise deal on emissions
Plan explains how 27 countries will cut carbon emissions by 20%
by 2020   • Jump to comments ()  European leaders have reached a
compromise deal on how to cut carbon emissions, diplomats said,
on the second day of a heads of state summit in Brussels.  The
plan lays out the ways in which the EU's 27 members will cut
carbon emissions by 20% by 2020 and is intended to set an
example for world efforts to tackle climate change.  It includes
various burden-sharing measures meant to ensure that the cost of
curbing pollution will not impede economic growth. The cost of
the plan had caused uproar among many poor eastern European
countries, many heavily reliant on coal for power, as the
continent grapples with economic downturn.  As EU leaders set
the seal on plans to cut emissions, the German chancellor,
Angela Merkel, expressed hope that a deal in Brussels could give
impetus to UN climate change talks in Poznan, Poland, which are
laying the groundwork for