European Union
Commissioner Stavros Dimas
All 27 member nations of the European Union are parties to the UNFCCC and have formally ratified the Kyoto Protocol. Stavros Dimas has served as the European Commissioner for the Environment since November 2004. Prior to that, he held numerous positions within the Greek government. The following is excerpted from Commissioner Dimas’s address to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, on December 12, 2007. We have been given a clear message by the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report. We need to act fast. If we ignore the science, we do so at our peril. Climate change is already…
