Connie Hedegaard

“unilateral 30% EU cut in CO2”

“At the end of May she will unveil research examining the consequences to Europe's economy of outdoing the current 20% target”

“the fall in CO2 during the recession meant a 20% cut would not drive the clean energy innovation Europe needed”

“China was investing almost 10 times as much as the EU in plans for a low-carbon economy”

“it is now a third cheaper to achieve the 20% target than when it was agreed in 2007”

“For an extra 11bn Euros on the sum originally proposed, the EU can now make a 30% CO2 cut [by 2020, based on 1990 levels]”

“the target of a 2C maximum increase in temperature”

“The day we have 100pc certainty it's too late to act”

“Europe's new Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard recently published a paper that set out the arguments why the EU should commit itself to a unilateral cut of 30% by 2020.”