Commission wants quick follow-up on Copenhagen
EurActiv | 15 Jan 2010
During an informal meeting of European energy and environment ministers in Seville, the European Commission will tomorrow (16 January) call'forswiftimplementation bythe EUofthe Copenhagen Accord on climate change, urgingother countries to follow suitand reacha legally-binding agreement in 2010, EurActiv has learned.
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Carbon capture to win EU funding before renewables
EurActiv | 18 Dec 2009
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects will likely be first to benefit from funding out of the EU emissions trading scheme (EU ETS), with support for renewables to follow later, a draft European Commission proposal suggests.
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EU 'disappointed' by Chinese, US climate pledges
EurActiv | 18 Dec 2009
Only "a miracle" will allow world leaders to patch together a climate deal in the final hours of the Copenhagen conference, said Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after a long-awaited speech by US President Barack Obama had disappointed negotiators. EurActiv reports from Copenhagen.
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Brazil warns EU on biofuel sustainability
EurActiv | 18 Dec 2009
EU rules for calculating indirect land-use changes caused by biofuel production would not be legitimate without an internationally-accepted methodology, a group of developing countries has told the European Commission.
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EEA: 'Climate treaty to allow poor countries to jump on growth train'
EurActiv | 17 Dec 2009
A new global climate treaty would provide an opportunity to create social cohesion by sharing low-carbon technologies between rich and poor countries, Jacqueline McGlade, executive director of the European Environment Agency (EEA), told EurActiv in an interview.
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Climate treaty offers chance of 'social cohesion'
EurActiv | 17 Dec 2009
Drawing up a new global climate treaty provides an opportunity to create social cohesion by sharing low-carbon technologies between rich and poor countries, Jacqueline McGlade, executive director of the European Environment Agency (EEA), told EurActiv in an interview.
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Poor nations push for 'new world order' in Copenhagen
EurActiv | 17 Dec 2009
An attempt by developing and emerging countries to'create "a new world order" in which Westernindustrialised nations are no longer dominant is threatening to scupper an agreement on climate change in Copenhagen, warned EU delegates.EurActiv reports from the Danish capital.
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Carbon capture ruled out of UN clean projects list
EurActiv | 16 Dec 2009
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) will not be added to the list of technologies that industrial countries can invest in to offset their emissions, after some countries expressed their reservations at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen.
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Climate summit struggles to overcome targets row
EurActiv | 16 Dec 2009
For weeks, negotiators working on a post-Kyoto climate deal in Copenhagen have been'repeating that there is no alternative to a new legally-binding agreement, even if this means working out the details at a later stage. But with talks marred by divisions between emissions targets for developed and developing countries, some are now saying that 1992's UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) might provide a more solid foundation for a deal.
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Robinson: Lack of climate deal 'will spark civil unrest'
EurActiv | 15 Dec 2009
Civil unrest will grow in the coming years unless heads of state and government show political leadership to stop climate change, said Mary Robinson, a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former Irish president, in an interview with EurActiv.
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