European Union may stick with lower climate offer to UN

BRUSSELS: The European Union will stick with its lowest offer for cutting carbon emissions under a UN climate accord, fulfilling the wishes of industry, a draft letter shows.

The 27-nation bloc has committed to unilaterally cutting carbon dioxide to 20 percent below 1990 levels over the next decade.

The EU will keep open its offer to deepen those cuts to 30 percent if other rich countries make similar efforts, according to the letter, seen by Reuters, to top UN climate official Yvo de Boer.