Climate Change: Fearing job losses, European steelworkers protest climate change policy

About 11,000 steelworkers from around Europe took to the streets in Brussels yesterday to protest the European Union's climate change policy which they fear might make them lose their jobs.

On Monday the European Parliament and the French Presidency of the European Union agreed on future targets on emissions from cars, setting the target for 2020 at 95 g CO2 per kilometre.

"We don't want to lose our job," one protester said, adding that the new regulations will possibly kill the steel industry in Europe. Several protesters held a coffin to indicate that the European steel industry will die when EU's climate change plan is implemented.

Published by Mike Hitchen, Mike Hitchen Consulting
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