British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, today spoke out against the current EU position on emission cuts.

While Andreas Carlgren the Swedish Minister for the Environment, who currently holds the rotating EU presidency, has said the EU will not reveal its emission cuts until the very last moment, Brown argued against this in an interview to the Guardian newspaper in the UK.

"It's not enough to say, 'I may do this, I might do that, possibly I'll do this'. I want to create a situation in which the European Union is persuaded to go to 30 percent," Gordon Brown tells The Guardian.

"We've got to make countries recognize that they have to be as ambitious as they say they want to be," he added.

The EU has already pledged 20% reductions below 1990 levels by 2020, but have agreed to deepen this to 30%, should an ambitious deal be reached at Copenhagen.