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Environmental News and Data Services (ENDS) News
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MEPs add biofuel criteria to EU fuel quality law
The European parliament`s environment committee voted on Tuesday to add minimum sustainability criteria for biofuels to a draft revision of the EU fuel quality directive. The European commission proposed the revision in January, and included a ...
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Shell: link biofuel incentives to CO2 savings
Regulators should promote the most carbon-efficient biofuels by linking financial incentives to the overall carbon lifecycle savings they deliver, according to oil firm Shell. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, Shell executive Graham Sweeney said ...
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Governments still wary of EU fuel carbon target
Several EU governments still have `serious doubts` over proposals to reduce lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions from transport fuels by 10 per cent over a decade. Their reservations appear in the latest compromise plan tabled by the Portuguese EU ...
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Swiss minister proposes post-2012 carbon tax
Swiss environment minister Moritz Leuenberger has proposed an extension of national carbon taxes to achieve an annual 1.5 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 2012. Switerland could also consider becoming climate neutral by paying ...
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Consumers `willing to pay for greener transport`
A majority of Europeans claim to be willing to pay more to use less polluting transport, though most of them would not be willing to pay more than ten per cent extra. Over 25,000 EU citizens provided their opinions on EU transport policy in the ...
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Support urged for North Sea carbon storage plan
The North Sea basin task force, a high-level British-Norwegian working group set up in 2005 to develop a joint approach to carbon capture and storage (CCS), has called for `financial and other incentives` to encourage the deployment of CCS in the ...
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Green groups unimpressed by Barroso commission
A coalition of ten Brussels-based environmental campaign groups has delivered a highly critical verdict on the European commission`s environment policy achievements during the first half of president José Manuel Barroso`s term in office. ...
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Germany backs binding curbs on vehicle carbon
The German government is ready to endorse European commission plans for binding legislation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from passenger cars, according to a draft resolution of EU environment ministers. Germany has written the resolution in ...
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EU wrestles with 2020 renewables goal
The European commission is wrestling with the problem of how to turn the principle of binding national targets for renewable energy endorsed by EU leaders this month into law, it emerged at a seminar in Brussels on Monday. A senior commission ...
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Green energy divisions loom over EU summit
Intense debate on green energy goals continued on Tuesday in the run-up to the spring summit of EU leaders on Thursday and Friday. The most hotly debated issue remains whether governments will back binding national targets for the EU to ...
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Commission drops low-carbon energy target
The European commission appears to have dropped the idea of proposing an EU target for the share of low-carbon energy use by 2020, judging by the final draft of a major energy policy paper due to be published on Wednesday and seen by ENDS. The term ...
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Energy efficiency plan hanging in the balance
The future of an EU action plan on energy efficiency that was due to be adopted this Wednesday, has been thrown into doubt after European commission president Jose Manuel Barroso raised last-minute concerns. The action plan is intended to set ...