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REC receives special message from EC Commissioner for the Environment
What follows is the text of a special video message from European Commissioner for the Environment Janez Potocnik, on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary celebration of the REC: HIGH PRAISE: Potocnik ...
Category: Matching tags: European Union,European Commission
Turkey opens Environment chapter in EU accession talks
December 21, 2009 Turkey's opening of an Environment chapter in EU accession talks on December 21 brings the number of total policy areas opened to 12, out of total of 35. Representing Turkey at ...
Category: Matching tags: Turkey,European Union
Yes, we can!
... is an intermittent source of electricity, Norwegian and Swedish hydropower will be most valuable in regulating supply. An extensive European network will be necessary to distribute electricity with wind ...
Category: Matching tags: Energy,Transport,European Union,Climate change,Sweden
Green state aid doubles in EU
Aug. 30, 2008 State aid for environmental improvement has doubled from EUR 7 billion to EUR 14 billion in the past seven years, according to a European Commission (EC) report published in May. The ...
Category: Matching tags: European Union,Environmental financing
EU expands Natura 2000 network
... the European Commission's decision to extend the network." The beech-forested Gory Slonne mountain region is just one of 18 areas that Poland has added to the Natura network. Slovakia is also contributing ...
Category: Matching tags: Marine environment,Wilderness,European Union
Europeans fret over biodiversity loss
May 30, 2009 According to the first of several opinion polls on environmental issues commissioned by EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas, most Europeans believe that biodiversity loss is a ...
Category: Matching tags: European Union,Biodiversity
EEB assesses Portugal’s EU presidency
May 30, 2008 In December, the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) reflected on the legacy of Portugal's EU presidency from an environmental perspective, praising the Iberian country's awareness-raising ...
Category: Matching tags: European Union
Leaked report lays into EU biofuels policy
May 30, 2008 In January, Friends of the Earth Europe (FOEE) and BirdLife International obtained a leaked report from the European Commission (EC) concerning the EU's proposal to establish a mandatory ...
Category: Matching tags: European Union,Agriculture,Fuel and energy
Green groups redraw ‘development’ map
May 30, 2008 On February 25 European Commissioner for Regional Policy Danuta Huebener appeared before the European Parliament to award 'RegioStars' for innovative development projects. CEE Bankwatch ...
Category: Matching tags: European Union,Environmental financing
EU slow to heed agrofuel warnings
Nov. 27, 2008 Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE) published in September warnings about the hazards of agrofuels (or biofuels), and is urging the EU to take greater interest in the perceived threats. ...
Category: Matching tags: Fuel and energy,European Union,Agriculture
Car industry idling on CO2 cuts
Nov. 27, 2008 The Transport and Environment group (T&E), having been granted access to documents concerning carbon dioxide emissions of new cars sold in the European Union, published its findings ...
Category: Matching tags: European Union,Pollution
EEA report: pollution not down
Nov. 27, 2008 A European Environment Agency (EEA) report published on November 13 revealed that Europe has made substantial cuts in air pollutants across the continent since 1997, but that concentrations ...
Category: Matching tags: Pollution,European Union
Biofuels target not a food risk, EC claims
Nov. 26, 2007 A new European Commission assessment concludes that the EU's target to raise the share of biofuels in the transport sector to 10 percent by 2020 can be met "without disrupting domestic ...
Category: Matching tags: European Union,Food,Fuel and energy
UK think-tank knocks ETS
... market — a practice disallowed in the first phase that will drive up external credits. European Commission spokeswoman Helfferich, according to ENDS Europe, rejected claims that the second phase will ...
Category: Matching tags: Climate change,European Union
Green taxes fall to 10-year low
... have remained more or less stable, lower energy taxes are to blame for the dip in revenue, European Commission officials explained, alleging that rising global energy prices have pressured EU governments ...
Category: Matching tags: European Union,Economy
EU electricity consumption ‘still rising’
Nov. 26, 2007 A July report from the European Commission's joint research centre highlights the EU's failure to "decouple electricity consumption from economic growth, despite the accelerating introduction ...
Category: Matching tags: Energy efficiency,European Union
Ruling to weaken organic standard
Aug. 12, 2007 On June 12, ministers from the European Union's Agriculture Council adopted a law that will allow "adventitious or technically unavoidable" genetically modified organism (GMO) content ...
Category: Matching tags: European Union,Agriculture
EU contributes to biodiversity database
... talks held two months earlier in Potsdam, Germany. The EU will allocate funds to collect data from across Europe for its new SpeciesBase. In the same week the European Commission launched NET-BIOME, ...
Category: Matching tags: European Union,Biodiversity
‘Green 10’ criticises Barroso Commission
Aug. 26, 2007 Ten of Europe's largest environmental organisations/networks, the so-called Green 10, delivered a review of the Barroso-led European Commission (EC) in April that was critical of the ...
Category: Matching tags: EU regulations,European Union
Council applies brakes on car emissions
May 26, 2007 The EU's Council of Ministers reached a deal with MEPs on May 30 to introduce tighter restrictions on pollutant emissions from cars and light commercial vehicles. The Euro 5 scheme imposes ...
Category: Matching tags: European Union,Sustainable Transport

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