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Parliament committee votes to prop up EU's ailing carbon market
2013-06-24 06:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EurActiv: The European Parliament's Environment Committee has given its support to a compromise plan to boost the price of allowances on the EU's carbon market. To become law, the proposal to temporarily remove some of the glut of permits that has weighed on prices still needs to win backing from a plenary session of the parliament next month in Strasbourg, and from EU member states. Traders said the market had already priced in a positive vote and allowances on the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS)...
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EU Parliament committee passes revised emissions trading scheme fix
2013-06-20 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: A European Parliament committee this week threw a lifeline to the beleaguered EU emissions trading system, passing a revised measure to "backload" allowances. The EP's Environment Committee Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill that makes changes in to a proposed fix for ETS that was rejected by the 754-member plenary body in April. The revised proposal contains compromises meant to make the plan to manipulate the struggling open market for the allowances more acceptable to EP members who...
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European parliament committee backs ban on planet-warming F-gases
2013-06-19 19:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The European Parliament's Environment Committee backed a sweeping ban on the use in fridges and air conditioners of fluorinated gases - greenhouse gases that are many thousands of times more damaging than carbon dioxide. The plan, which would have to be approved by a plenary session of the parliament and by EU countries before becoming law, goes much further than a proposal from the executive European Commission. It seeks a gradual phase-out and ban in new equipment by 2020, and to levy a charge...
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Sudan's Parliament Backs Bashir's Decision to Halt Oil Flow
2013-06-14 07:06:26| Sugar Industry News
Khartoum Sudan's National Assembly has expressed support to president Omer Hassan al-Bashir's decision to halt oil flow from South Sudan with only one MP dissenting.
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European Parliament passes new baby food labelling legislation
2013-06-13 01:00:00| Packaging Gateway
The European Parliament has passed new legislation under which the rules on the labelling and content of baby milks and foods for special medical purposes will be better articulated.
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