Budapest - Efforts made by countries in previous years towards reducing emissions must be taken into account when setting expected contributions, Hungary's Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai told reporters in Brussels, ahead of today's EU summit.
The climate change proposal of the EU's current Swedish Presidency is unacceptable in its current form, Bajnai said.
Bajnai held talks with his counterparts from Visegrad Four countries (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Rep) and Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Slovenia on the subject. He said leaders of the nine countries agreed that the proposal fails to account for differences in economic development between countries in its allocation of expected contributions. He insisted that earlier efforts made by countries towards reducing emissions must be taken into account.
Bajnai said the EU must decide before its Copenhagen summit in December on the principles of distributing financial obligations as well as setting a goal in combatting climate change.