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EU Environment Ministers Approve Post-2020 ETS Reforms
EU Member States have voted in favour of a new package of measures to overhaul the European Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) after 2020, which has for years been dogged by low prices and a surplus of allowances. Environment ministers from…
The Cost of Climate INaction in the Agricultural Sector
This week key policymakers of the European Parliament discuss the EU’s largest climate instrument. Ahead of the debate, five organizations expose how a loophole in the law could significantly increase the costs of post-2030 climate efforts by delaying the required…
CO2 Cuts: Finding the Right Balance between Protecting Trade and Fighting Climate Change
MEPs vote last week on plans to reform the EU’s emissions trading system (ETS), a scheme set up to help reduce greenhouse gases, which is not not working as expected. Although the EU is the world’s third largest CO2 emitter,…
MEPs Back Higher Recycling Targets
MEPs on the EU’s environment committee yesterday backed the adoption of more ambitious waste and recycling targets under the Circular Economy Package. The lawmakers voted to boost the municipal recycling target from 65 per cent to 70 per cent by…
EU Set to Limit Priority for Future Renewable Energy Projects: Draft
EU regulators plan to limit renewable energy producers’ right to be the first to sell their electricity into European power grids, but stopped short of scrapping such privileges for existing projects as some had feared. The proposal, seen by Reuters,…
Nelt Releases its First Sustainability Report
Nelt has released its first “Distribution with care” Sustainability Report in line with the international GRI reporting standard. The Report uses measurable indicators to show important aspects of the business and objectives that Nelt as a socially responsible company has…
Petrol Cars Allowed to Exceed Pollution Limits by 50% Under Draft EU Laws
New European cars with petrol engines will be allowed to overshoot a limit on toxic particulates emissions by 50% under a draft EU regulation backed by the UK and most other EU states. Campaigners say that a simple €25 (£22)…