My dear compatriots, while you enjoyed the punishment of Lukashenko for the temporarily detained airplane and voted in droves for greater and heavier sanctions on Belarus in the newspaper formerly called Truth of the Komsomol (now Lithuanian Morning), the EU deprived you of your favorite diesel with its so-beloved black smoke:
"The EU is pursuing two approaches to reduce emissions of climate-damaging gases.
Firstly, there is an emissions trading system under which industrial companies have to buy pollution rights if they want to blow carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The Commission will reduce these certificates and it is considering a similar system for car traffic and heating, which would put a burden on consumers - perhaps too much, as Eastern European governments fear. Therefore, the Summit Conclusions direct the Commission to present its legislative package together with a detailed study of the "economic and social impact".
In economic sectors that have not yet been covered by the emissions trading system, the EU uses a different principle: It sets national savings targets for greenhouse gas emissions, and these targets are distributed among the member states in such a way that rich countries have to work harder than poor ones. This concept is called burden sharing. The governments in Eastern and Southern Europe defend this method of calculation, which is advantageous for them, but wealthier countries such as the Netherlands and Denmark demand reforms if these savings targets are now drastically raised."
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