Inter Press Service: European Union governments look set to reject calls for taxing cars based on their contribution to climate change. At a Dec. 4 meeting, finance ministers from the EU’s 27 member states are scheduled to discuss a proposal for reshaping taxes imposed on cars so that they take account of the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main climate-changing gas, they emit. But Portugal, the current holder of the EU’s rotating presidency, has conceded that a breakthrough on this plan is …