All this "save the planet" malarky really is a bit on the daft side. The planet doesnt need saving, nothing we can do will ever destroy it. Things like the Sun dying or the Moon edging further away from us will do more than driving your Land Rover to the shops let me assure you. To blame a natural gas, Carbon Dioxide, which is produced by all living things to "kill the planet" is a joke. And they know its a joke aswell, and just trying to make even more and more and more money out of the whole bonanza.

Martin, Ipswich, UK

The Earth cannot sustain an ever-increasing population gorging on its limited resources. Humans are a virus akin to a cancer on this planet and the sooner we address this problem the better.

Cromell, Leeds, England

Hi,
The Ironany of politics Fr. Merkel in Bali said one thing at home she says another thing. Regarding the EU decision on car emission. German car’s are considerable pollutants this has some thing to do with the no speed restriction on German motor ways.

Regards Dr. Terence Hale

Terence Hale, zandvoort, Holland

The new rich in Russia, the corrupt African leaders etc: will still buy the high perfrormance and poluting cars but without EU restictions. If necessary BMW could have a plant in Russia.
Again where are Brown's red lines. He has no power, it all rests with his masters in Brussels. Europe is fast pricing itself out of the real world.

James, Sevenoaks, England

Fossil fuels will run out very soon, so that emissions will cease whether we like it or not. Or have the tax hungry governments of Europe conveniently forgotten ths FACT.

Everybody get a grip - pathetic!

David Garside, Badford, England

If we can slow down our metabolism we will breath less, there are several ways to do this:
1) Exercise less; burn less sugar and eat less food (also indirectly reducing food transport emissions too – but making people a bit fatter and increasing passenger flight emissions). Stop playing badminton and football, start playing dominoes instead.
2) Sleep more; when we sleep breathing slows, the heart rate also slows. Stages 1 and 2 are light sleep in which breathing is slower than when a person is awake. Stages 3 and 4 are called slow-wave (delta) sleep, in which the person’s rate of breathing slows down further. During REM sleep, it is normal to have short episodes when breathing stops (apnea) – even better!
3) Meditation; the Chinese may be taking a lot of flack for starting up one coal fired power station each week, but they do at least have the edge on the breathing front. Yogic breathing is slow, infrequent and environmentally friendly.
4) Start a campaign for global non-breathing day – a day which we all spend sleeping in, doing no exercise and meditating. Who needs an economy anyway?

arthur, texas, usa

Great to fine the polluters. You can lead the horse to water, but if you can't make it drink? But having just returned from a supermarket, when are the government have the bottle to tax the billions of plastic bags that pollute & waste resources? I understand a simple 5 pence bag tax in other countries has reduced consumption by up to 80%.

Roger Southall, Wolverhampton,

You have to congratulate the EU, just like the UK parliament, there is not a single qualified engineer as a politician, but these no-brain politicians are dictating what has to be done, and not what can actually be done.

When will the EU turn on the pollution that ships cause, they are completely un-regulated, and can dump out their funnels as much pollution as they like?

Andzej, Dover, UK

Instead of roads that are a logjam even outside the rush hours, why cannot we have public transport of all kinds that is efficient, inexpensive and on time?

This and other problems stem from the world economies relying upon growth, population growth especially, to mask every systemic corporate and economic blunder. Both are rampant.

The fact is that the world population is already too high and we need a cull to deal with it, not more people. Consumerism is the blight of the modern world and we are less happy, suffer stress and live in less dignity and with less care and concern for one another as time goes on. The media are irresponsible and it is an outrage that they indirectly murdered Diana yet are not held to account. Profit rules the world.

We should abandon food from abroad and go back to a more agrarian society. We should learn to live and enjoy instead of consume and neglect. We should leave something to future generations that is not fast depleting gneration by generation.

Stephen Felce, Enfield, UK

All very nice to talk about global warming and targets etc, but when measures are taken to try and meet these targets with the result that real jobs are lost and economys threatened, it becomes a very different ball game.

Peter Andrew, Montreal, Canada