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Press releases12.11.2008

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Energy strategy

EU energy strategy based on flawed and manipulated research

Green MEPs have criticised the 2nd 'Strategic Energy Review', presented by the EU Commission. The review fails to recognise peak oil and ignores EU energy efficiency commitments.

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EVENTSBrussels 12.11.2008

Are we prepared?

The impact of climate change on health and social services

The growing frequency of extreme weather events is already becoming evident across the EU. This conference aims to identify the coming challenges of climate change for health, as well as looking at past responses to extreme weather events, to assess if and how our social services are prepared.

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Stop climate change04.11.2008

Climate campaign newsletter

Issue 16 - November 2008

The EU's climate package of legislation moved a step closer to reality after key votes in the European Parliament but opposition in the Council also intensified. Also in this issue, the latest climate news from around the world.

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Press releases16.10.2008

European Union - Copyright: Alexander Briel

EU summit

Groundhog day for climate policy as EU Summit steamrolls legislative process

The outcome of the EU Summit was less than positive for the EU's climate package. The French EU presidency now seems bent on rushing through an agreement based on the lowest common denominator.

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Press releases07.10.2008

Smoking industry chimney - Copyright: Michael Graber

Emissions trading scheme

Environment committee votes for viable ETS as industry fails to dictate terms

The EP Environment Committee has seen off attempts by industry to completely derail the Emissions Trading Scheme. The committee voted for a full auctioning of carbon credits under the scheme by 2020, with all auction revenues to be used for climate-related purposes.

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Climate changeBrussels 16.10.2008

Power plant near Frankfurt - Copyright: Christoph Ermel

EU emissions

EU15 makes some progress towards Kyoto emissions targets

The EU15 (the 15 'old' EU member states) is making progress towards its greenhouse gas emissions reduction commitment under the Kyoto Protocol. However, a new report from the European Environment Agency shows significant use of external offsets will be necessary to ultimately meet the overall target.

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Conference: A Global Contract based on climate justice

The need for a new approach concerning international relations

This conference looks at the international negotiations for an agreement to tackle climate change post-2012. The conference will set out the case for a Global Contract based on the principle of climate justice.

Smoke coming out of a tailpipe - Copyright: Mike Schmidt

Passenger car CO2 emissions

Surprise environment committee vote shifts climate protection up a gear

MEPs have voted to introduce meaningful rules for tackling the damaging climate impact of cars: average emissions should be reduced to 130 g/km by 2012 through vehicle improvements with an extra 10 g/km reduction through additional measures.

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Press releases11.09.2008

Renewables Directive

EP votes to put renewable energy first in Europe

The European Parliament's industry committee has voted in favour of an ambitious binding target of a 20% share of energy from renewable sources by 2020. While the biofuels target remains, stronger sustainability criteria and a review in 2014 have been introduced.

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EVENTSBrussels 17.09.2008

Intellectual Properties Rights and Green Energy Technologies

Intellectual Property Rights and Green Energy Technologies

Workshop

The workshop on Intellectual Property Rights and Green Energy Technologies dealt with some crucial issues in the context of the negotiations for an international agreement on climate change. The speakers highlighted the importance of technology transfer for an international agreement but also the challenge posed by intellectual property rules.

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EVENTSBrussels 03.07.2008

Set the right climate for your holidays!

A conference on tourism and climate change

This conference highlighted both the role that tourism plays in causing climate change but also negative impact of climate change on tourism. It also looked at the planned inclusion of tourism in the EU legislative process under the Lisbon Treaty.

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Press releases05.06.2008

Krško nuclear scare

Alarm bells ringing, information still lacking

Greens' reaction to yesterday's incident at the Krško nuclear plant in Slovenia und the EU-wide alarm that followed.

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EVENTSBrussels 11.06.2008

Climate migrants

How to protect the people who are affected by climate change

The conference looked at adaptation strategies and solutions for how to prevent climate migrations, as well as protecting and compensating the affected people. A declaration on the protection of the climate migrants was adopted at the end of the conference.

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Press releasesBonn/Brüssel 30.05.2008

Deforestation -copyright Geralda van der Es

Biodiversity

UN-Conference ends without solution to protect biodiversity from agrofuels threat.

The EU did neither show a common approach nor a united position at the negotiations during the high-level meeting in Bonn. Now it will be up to the Parliament and the Council to deal with the topic. Those fights among EU states are not a good sign in the perspective of the UN climate change summit in Poznan.

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Zur UN-Konferenz zur Artenvielfalt in Bonn

Press releases27.05.2008

A Boeing 747 being refueled - Copyright: Christoph Ermel

Aviation

Greens welcome strong Parliament vote on aviation and climate proposals

The Greens welcome the strong result in today's Environment Committee's vote on the proposal to include aviation in the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

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Press releases21.05.2008

Climate change

Scientific facts call for greater political ambition

The European Parliament today voted on its interim report on climate change.This report is the first outcome of the temporary committee on climate change which was set up last year.

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Climate change13.05.2008

Global warming

World CO2 levels at record high

Latest findings by the US NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) show that CO2 levels in the atmopshere now stand at 387 ppm, up almost 40% since the industrial revolution and the highest for at least the last 650,000 years!

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