British PM urges EU to lay the cards on the table.

Although Swedish Minister for Environment Andreas Carlgren, who currently holds the rotating EU presidency, has said that the union would not reveal its emissions cuts until the very last moment, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown breaks the silence.

“It’s not enough to say, ‘I may do this, I might do that, possibly I’ll do this’. I want to create a situation in which the European Union is persuaded to go to 30 percent,” Gordon Brown tells The Guardian.

“We’ve got to make countries recognize that they have to be as ambitious as they say they want to be,” he added.

So far, the EU has pledged to cut emissions to 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and to deepen that cut to 30 percent if there is an “ambitious” deal in Copenhagen.

Before the start of the climate change conference in Copenhagen, the Environment Commissioner of the European Union, Stavros Dimas, urged Europe to set a good example by agreeing to cut emissions by 30 percent from 1990 levels. (Photo: Scanpix/AFP)

(News taken from the COP15 website)