Czech government to challenge European Commission CO2 allocation

The Czech government has decided to launch a legal challenge against the European Commission's decision to slash its 2008-2012 carbon dioxide emissions quota. The decision was taken at a special government session on Friday. In a statement Environment Minister Martin Riman said he was glad that the coalition government had accepted his decision to launch a lawsuit, indicating that, in his view, the European Commission had damaged the Czech Republic through a complex calculation model and bad data. In March the European Commission cut the proposed Czech carbon emissions quota by 14.8 percent to an annual 86.8 million tonnes between the years 2008 and 2012.