What progress is the EU making towards the Kyoto targets?
National and EU-level action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has enabled the EU to “decouple” emissions from economic growth. Between the base year (1990 in most cases) and 2004, the EU-15 reduced its collective emissions by 0.9% while the economy grew by 32%. EU-25 emissions were down by 7.3%. These reductions compare, for instance, with a 15.8% rise in U.S. emissions between 1990 and 2004 as the U.S. economy expanded by 52.6%.
