During a speech at the Council of European Municipalities and Regions, president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, on Monday said that the globally binding agreement between all major emitters reached during the Durban Durban COP17 Summit has been "the result of a European position". "It was the European position that has consistently has stated that we could not agree with a new Kyoto commitment if there was not a commitment of all the major emitters", Barroso said.
