Brussels, 6 October 2008 – Friends of the Earth Europe has today deplored the miserable record of outgoing EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson. Peter Mandelson, Member of the Barroso Commission since 2004 in charge of the external trade portfolio, announced on Friday he was leaving the post to take up a ministerial position in his …
New law to put Finland at forefront of climate change fight
Brussels/Helsinki, 26 September 2008 – The Finnish parliament yesterday agreed to consider a law to cut the country’s climate changing emissions by five per cent every year. Members of the Finnish Parliament debated two climate bills which, if made law, would set legally binding annual targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and put Finland at …
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MEPs support tough action on car emissions
Brussels, 25 September 2008 – MEPs in the European Parliament today voted to make carmakers play a much greater role in tackling climate change and rejected car industry attempts to weaken proposed legislation on the fuel efficiency of new cars. With an overwhelming majority, the Parliament’s Environment Committee endorsed the European Commission’s proposal to cut …
Industry committee MEPs not interested in tackling dangerous climate change
Brussels, 22 September 2008 – Climate Action Network Europe, Friends of the Earth Europe, Greenpeace and WWF have heavily criticized the outcome of today’s vote by the European Parliament’s industry (ITRE) committee on ‘effort sharing’ [1]. Environmentalists slammed the committee’s opinion that countries should be able to buy their way out of real emission cuts …
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Euro MPs vote to weaken EU biofuels target
Brussels, 11 September 2008 – Members of the European Parliament voted today to scale back the EU’s ambitious plans to expand the use of biofuels as a transport fuel following widespread environmental and social concerns. Friends of the Earth Europe called it a “welcome step in the right direction.” The MEPs supported proposals that would …
Environmental groups denounce EU Parliament attempt to boycott climate targets
Brussels, Belgium – The European Parliament’s industry committee is trying to ditch the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and to boycott 2020 climate targets, environmental groups said following today’s vote on how the carbon market should operate after 2012. The committee voted to delay or even prevent the planned shift from a 20 to a …
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