Sarkozy gives France green plan - BBC

[Eugene]

Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Thursday, 25 October 2007, 16:12 GMT 17:12 UK

Sarkozy gives France green plan

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has used a speech
on the environment to call for taxes on polluters and
for French use of pesticides to be halved.

He also said the commercial planting of genetically-
modified crops would be suspended in France.

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"The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels
- more, and tax work less," Mr Sarkozy said.

He called on the European Union to study in the next
six months "the possibility of taxing imports from
countries that do not respect the Kyoto Protocol" -
the international agreement to limit greenhouse gas
emissions.


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7062577.stm

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