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The EU's Hard Choice: Climate Change or National Politics
2016-05-27 23:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Last years Paris Climate Agreement at COP21 marked a paradigm shift in the international response to climate change. Skeptics argue the targets arent ambitious enough, but few can deny that COP21, thanks in part to Europes leadership, achieved the first multilateral climate agreement since the Kyoto Protocol. In April 2016, with Earth Day as a backdrop, 175 parties accounting for 94% of global emissions reconvened to sign the Paris Climate Agreement. But only 15 countriesmainly small island...
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EU's Delbeke Backs Tighter Carbon Supply Over Price Floor
2016-05-27 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The European Commission will not support a proposal to introduce a price floor or corridor in Europes emissions market and prefers supply controls to strengthen the system, according to senior European Union official Jos Delbeke. The EUs 28 national governments and the European Parliament are discussing a reform of the blocs Emissions Trading System to adjust it to stricter pollution-reduction goals for 2030. As a part of the review, France is pushing for a minimum price to boost prices the...
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EU's Young Farmers Held Back by Lack of Land, Credit
2016-04-08 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
EU - Nearly 61 per cent of EU young farmers consider the availability of land for purchase and 57 per cent the availability of land for rent as the most difficult challenges they face, often due to issues such as land ownership laws, inheritance rules and land prices, according to a new external report published by the European Commission this week.
European Parliament to decide on fate of EUs new port regulations
2016-03-07 01:00:00| Ship Technology
The European Parliament is set to take a decision on the implementation of the European Union's (EU's) new port regulations after a decider vote is cast on it.
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EU's ban on inefficient toasters delayed to avoid pro-Brexit press attack
2016-02-28 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The EU has put plans to regulate inefficient kettles and toasters into cold storage amid fears in Brussels that they could galvanise support for the leave campaign in the UKs 23 June referendum. Mobile phones, lifts, hair- and hand-dryers and vending machines are also on a shortlist of products for increased regulation in 2015-17. The measures had been expected to save the equivalent of 10m tonnes of CO2 emissions per year by 2030, helping EU countries to meet efficiency goals and consumers to...
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