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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 …

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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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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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