Press Release: Climate change: start of the second European Climate Change Programme

The European Commissioner for the Environment, Stavros Dimas, on 24 October 2005 launched the second European Climate Change Programme (ECCP II) at a stakeholder conference in Brussels. In view of the magnitude of the climate change threat, ECCP II was to focus on new cost-effective measures and technologies that would allow the EU to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years and to adapt to the climate change effects that are inevitable. The ECCP, which was initiated in 2000, is the umbrella under which the European Commission and stakeholders discuss and prepare measures to fight climate change.

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European Commission: DG Environment: Climate change: European Climate Change Programme http://ec.europa.eu/comm/environment/climat/eccp.htm

European Commission: Speech: SPEECH/05/635, Developing the European Climate Change Programme, 24.10.05 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/05/635&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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