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European leaders met Thursday seeking to show a united front in the battle against climate change, as UN talks continued in Copenhagen, by pledging aid for developing nations to cope with its consequences. Their talks had not even got underway when Greenpeace activists breached the normally tight security at the EU Council building in Brussels and held a noisy protest while a queue of official cars, one of them carrying British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, waited behind them. A dozen protesters, apparently wearing fake access badges, unfurled banners reading "EU Save Copenhagen," during their brief intervention under the eyes of the world's press and some bemused security guards. In a statement sent to media, Greenpeace called on the EU to unilaterally boost its pledge to raise emission reductions from 20 percent to 30 percent.
The 27 assembled heads of state and government were mulling such a move, but most European nations are unwilling to make the step without similar pledges from the rest of the industrialized world.
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