Cutting EU emissions deeply enough to help prevent dangerous climate change would be significantly cheaper than expected and would also have important benefits for Europe’s economy, the European Commission declared yesterday.

EU finance ministers today (9 June) failed to agree on financial help for developing countries struggling with global warming, sending a worrying signal to negotiators at global climate talks in Bonn.

British MPs have been warned by Christian Aid, at a special briefing at the House of Commons, that unless the UK government commits to reducing emissions by 80% by 2050 millions of people in the developing world will suffer.