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EU must listen to climate change science -Dimas

02 Feb 2007 10:11:44 GMT
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BRUSSELS, Feb 2 (Reuters) - The European Union has to look at what science is saying about climate change and tailor its policies accordingly, the EU's environment chief said on Friday after a U.N. report warned humans are heating the planet.

Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Environment Programme, said the EU goal of limiting temperature rises to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels was "almost redundant" after the findings of the report.

EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas, reacting to those comments, said the bloc was working to achieve the 2 degrees goal but would take into account the report's conclusions.

"Of course we have to take into account the findings of the (U.N.) and formulate our policy accordingly," he told Reuters by telephone from Paris.

"We have to look at what science is recommending to us."

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