Inter Press Service: A year after the European Union’s governments promised to take the lead in fighting climate change, they appeared to back-pedal on that pledge at a summit in Brussels Mar. 13-14. Whereas a traditional spring meeting of the EU’s presidents and prime ministers during 2007 had an air of urgency about it, the most pressing concern on the minds of many leaders attending the same event 12 months later was how to ensure that environmental measures do not hurt those sectors of Europe’s …