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UK backs new EU climate strategy

For the EU itself, the Commission wants member states to commit themselves to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020 compared with 1990 levels; meet 20% of all energy demands from renewable sources (such as nuclear power, wind and wave farms), and 10% of vehicle fuel from biofuels, by 2020; and hold rising temperatures to no more than two 2 degrees centigrade above the 1990 level.

Environmentalist campaigners said the strategy was not ambitious enough to counter climate change or improve long-term energy supply security.

If the US pulls a GM and doesn't get on board with the new innovations they will miss out on the next big market.