EU presses China and US to act on climate

EU-Digest (AFP) - Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, urged Tuesday the United States and China to undertake more efforts to fight climate change. The Swedish Prime Minister met with Barack Obama in Washington Monday for an USA-EU summit that lasts until Tuesday. He will also be travelling to China for a November 30 China-EU summit in Nankin, at which climate, along with the global economic crisis, will be a central issue. China is the world's biggest greenhouse gas producer, Reinfeldt said Tuesday, urging the country to "be more ambitious, so that emissions can reach their maximum in 2020, and can then be decreased."

The Copenhagen Climate summit will start on December 7, one week after Reinfeldt's China visit. Its aim is to craft an international climate accord to replace the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012.