New York Times: Europe`s role as a global leader in combating climate change risks becoming the next victim of the global financial crisis. As the threats of global recession and rising unemployment loom after the expensive bank bailouts, some European leaders are demanding that the trade bloc backpedal on a pledge announced with much fanfare last spring to cut greenhouse emissions by 20 percent and to generate 20 percent of power through renewable sources by 2020. At a meeting Monday in …