EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso says Europeans would each pay 3 Euros (£2.24) a week for EU package to limit global warming.
The European Union plans to slash greenhouse gases by a fifth by 2020, imposing costs on major polluters and rapidly scaling up how much energy it draws from windmills, solar panels and energy crops.
European governments were urged today to play their full part in achieving the most comprehensive deal on climate change in the world.
Barroso told Euro MPs that the European Union was determined to lead the way in facing up to the most important challenge of the 21st century - reducing global pollution.
He was speaking after the Commission agreed plans to cut carbon emissions across Europe by 20 per cent compared with 1990 levels by 2020.
An plan to boost energy from renewable sources to 20 per cent of total energy use by the same deadline was also agreed.
But Friends of the Earth (FOE) attacked the plan as "a disgrace".
FoE director, Tony Juniper, said: "Europe wants to be a world leader in tackling global warming, but its carbon reduction target is far weaker than the one agreed at last month's UN climate summit in Bali. The solutions already exist, what we lack is political ambition and courage. The EU climate plan is a disgrace."
Greenpeace said the climate change package was "a good start" but still fell short of an agreement at a climate change conference in Bali in December when the EU acknowledged the need - set out by scientists to slash CO2 emissions by 40 per cent if a target of keeping the average global temperature increase within two degrees in the decades to come is to be achieved.
"This package contains a number of progressive elements but one fundamental drawback - its emissions numbers do not yet add up to a 30 per cent cut," said Mahi Sideridou, the organisation's climate and energy director.
"As things stand EU countries and industry will deliver less climate action than we need, by aiming for an inadequate emissions' cut of 20 per cent by 2020.
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