In a signed letter 26 business leaders from companies across Europe – published by The Financial Times, Le Monde and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – EU ministers are urged to push for increased carbon-cutting targets.

The letter is in response to an article published in the same newspapers in which the climate change ministers; Chris Huhne, for the UK, Dr Norbert Röttgen, for Germany and Jean-Louis Borloo for France set out the economic benefits for increasing Europe’s climate change...