Second Climate Change Programme Launched.

The article presents the launching of the second European Climate Change Programme (ECCP II). The ECCP I's goal is to help identify the most environmentally and cost effective European Union (EU) measures enabling EU to meet eight per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol while the ECCP II focuses on the further development of EU climate policy. Several issues were discussed during the launching and among these are some areas of current and future European climate change policy, ECCP I review and geological carbon capture.