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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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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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 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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May 12, 2010
A global environmental update
Coastal nations have quietly taken over areas of seabed totalling almost the size of Australia since 2002 and far more is up for grabs in one of the biggest redrawings of the world map in history, experts told Reuters. Norway should limit soot from emerging Arctic industries such as oil or shipping that risk...
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April 28, 2010
A global environmental update
Major economies are pushing for substantial increases in water prices around the world as concern grows about dwindling supplies and rising population, The Guardian reported. Some experts argue that as long as most countries provide huge subsidies for water it will not be possible to change wasteful habits....
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April 21, 2010
A global environmental update
Europe’s skies reopened for business, but with so many planes having been grounded by volcanic ash spreading from Iceland it could take weeks to clear the flight backlog, according to Reuters. The volcano beneath the Eyjafjallajökull glacier was still erupting, but producing much less ash. (See...
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April 14, 2010
A global environmental update A Peruvian glacier break that killed three fishermen and smashed a water-processing plant serving 60,000 Andean people is worrying ecologists and officials, who fear a repeat of the event. Apparently without warning, part of the glacier plunged into a lake in central Peru, creating a massive wave, United Press International...
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