EU parliament launches climate committee

A special European parliament committee on climate change held its first meeting on Tuesday. Newly appointed chairman, Italian MEP Guido Sacconi, said the committee would seek to build a "global coalition of national parliaments" to tackle the issue.  The years 2007 and 2008 "will tell us if we can save the planet", Mr Sacconi said.  

German centre-right MEP Karl Heinz Florenz was appointed rapporteur for drafting the committee's conclusions, which it is expected to table in mid-2008.  

See European parliament http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/public/default_en.htm.

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