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PARIS (AFP) — He may be a diminutive man, but President Nicolas Sarkozy has a huge carbon footprint, equivalent to that made by 1,000 of his fellow French citizens, an ecological magazine said Thursday.

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Posted on October 23, 2008 · in Europe, Top Stories

BRUSSELS, Belgium — Leaders of the 27-country European Union pledged Thursday they will stick to a pricey plan for deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, saying the recent meltdown of financial markets must not deter efforts to combat global warming.

After presiding at a two-day EU summit, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that despite some misgivings about the cost, “climate change is so important that we cannot use the financial and economic crisis as a pretext for dropping it.”

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Posted on October 19, 2008 · in Carbon Market News, Europe