Blog Action Day: Unions talk climate with the EU

It’s Blog Action Day today, and over 8,000 blogs are coming together to spark discussion around the issue of climate change. I’m spending the day in Brussels, at a co-ordinating conference of unions working on environmental issues. A European Union spokesperson has just told us that CO2 reduction pledges are so far adding up to a 17% cut, which is around half of the fall in emissions we need globally by 2020. We’re hearing again that the EU is 100% behind a Just Transition text in the n

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