Climate Central: The European Commission's vote to reduce greenhouse gas pollution levels by 40 percent by 2030, compared with 1990 levels, "will put pressure on all countries,' said Jake Schmidt, the Natural Resources Defence Council's climate negotiations expert, "including the U.S. and China, to be ambitious when they announce targets next year.'
The European Union's (EU) 28 countries are responsible for about one-sixth of the greenhouse gas pollution that's created by humanity every year. The EU is on track...