EU/ERBD News
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Compared to the traditional countries of the EU the recent EU entrants have a lot of catching up to do in regards to achieve convergence to meet with Environmental standards of the European Union. Poland for example had made remarkable progress to meet the EU standards but it still has a long way to go. The priority issues that Cee-Environmental has identified...
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By Greenbang on Tuesday, 29th June 2010
If ever a time called for creative financing, now — 2010 in the UK — is the time.
It’s a classic case of immovable object (the need to cut fossil fuel energy use and carbon emissions) meets unstoppable force (the government’s decision to slash the deficit with a £40 billion austerity...
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Editorial by Achim Steiner and Pavan Sukhdev
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The G20 summit in Canada offers an...
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HELSINKI, June 23 (Xinhua) -- The capacity of Finland's forests to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has doubled in the past 20 years, Finnish media reported Wednesday.
According to Finnish Forest Research Institute, Finland's forests absorb 42 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, which is well over half of Finnish carbon dioxide emissions,...
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Alberta (Reuters) - Canada will phase out older coal-fired power plants to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday, as it moves to make natural-gas fired plants the new clean-power standard.
Green Business
The new standards, expected to be firmed up by early 2011, will force electricity...
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The Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund (MCCF), set up by the EBRD and the European Investment Bank (EIB), has agreed to buy from Air Liquide Severstal carbon credits resulting from an energy efficiency project involving a modern Air Separation Unit in Russia’s Vologda region.
This will be the MCCF’s second transaction in Russia.
Air Liquide Severstal...
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The United States opened civil and criminal investigations of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as BP began new efforts to control the undersea leak, Bloomberg News reported. Amid fears that the oil could gush until August, hurricane season began on June 1. A new oil flow emerged from the damaged well after a remote-controlled submarine successfully cut...
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The European Union has scaled back plans to give billions of euros to poor countries to persuade them to address climate change, Reuters reported, citing a draft document. Funding from rich nations to the developing world has emerged as a major stumbling block to progress in climate negotiations. DNA “identity tags” of the African red river...
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Five weeks into the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico -- and under intense pressure from the US government -- BP was poised to attempt a tricky “top kill” procedure in another effort to clog the gushing deep-sea well, Reuters reported. For a live BP video link from the seabed, see here. In the hours before the oil rig exploded, there were strong...
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Timber companies and environment groups unveiled an agreement aimed at protecting two-thirds of Canada’s vast forests from unsustainable logging, the BBC reported. Over 72 million hectares are included in what will become the world’s largest commercial forest conservation deal. A large swathe of the Gulf of Mexico remains closed to fishing as...
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