“We have a choice and we must have the political courage to act now, with ambition and collectively,” Members of the European Union in October agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent, increase the renewable energy footprint by 27 percent and enhance energy efficiency by 27 percent from a 1990 benchmark by 2040. Miguel Arias Cañete, European commissioner for climate action and energy, told the European Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety the bloc has the policies in place to arrest climate change . A report published last week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found emissions of carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas, from the […]