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Hungary could have become the second EU member state after the UK to pass an overarching climate framework bill. But the ruling socialist party backed down on Monday (22 February) citing job concerns after heavy pressure from the industrial lobby. EurActiv Hungary reports.

The United States succeeded in bringing people to the moon: a dream that nobody thought would be realised. Perhaps we should think of climate protection as the new Apollo programme, the vice-chair of the European Parliament's delegation in Copenhagen, Karl-Heinz Florenz, told EurActiv in an interview.

A row in Copenhagen widened divisions between developed and developing countries yesterday (8 December) over a leaked document spelling out details of a political agreement which is reportedly seen as setting unequal limits per capita carbon emissions between rich and poor countries. But negotiators called for order and a focus on the essentials.

A business group consisting of some of Britain's largest corporations is calling for a cross-party effort to deliver the necessary "transformational change" across the economy to meet the threat of climate change. 

EU economics and finance ministers want to ensure that the bloc's climate change policies do not undermine public finances and job growth. The EU's carbon market and other 'market-based instruments' are the preferred option for cutting the bloc's carbon emissions, according to the ministers' draft conclusions, to be adopted on 12 February.  

Dealing with climate change will require significant changes in global investment patterns, including investment flows to the developing world of up to 1.7% of global GDP by 2030, according to a United Nations report that points to the potential of emissions trading as a promising source of funding. 

Forest fires, heat waves, population displacements, disease proliferation and increased water scarcity for agriculture are some of the inevitable consequences of climate change that EU countries need to prepare for, the European Commission has warned in a new Green Paper published on 29 June.

As governments face up to the challenge of moving towards a low-carbon economy in the midst of a recession, the tax system "can be a powerful device for changing behaviour," argues the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) in an August policy paper.

A world of zero net greenhouse gas emissions "will be needed to achieve climate stability," argue Christopher Flavin and Robert Engelman, president and vice-president of the Worldwatch Institute, in a 2009 publication.

"While many assume that a recession will reduce the ambition of the EU and other countries to press ahead with climate change policies, the opposite may well be the case," argues Christian Egenhofer, a senior fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).

There are clear similarities between climate change adaptation and economic behaviour and thus the issue can be dealt with within the framework of economic analysis, argues a policy brief by Asbjørn Aaheim and Marianne Aasen for the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).