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EC hopes impact-report can break deadlock with Poland GHG targets

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union, Poland
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  • June 26 2011

At their July 11-12 meeting of the bloc’s environment ministers, the European Commission will attempt to break a stalemate in EU discussions on climate change targets by unveiling a country-by-country analysis of the economic impact of more ambitious goals for reducing GHG emissions

Credits phased out

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union
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  • June 12 2011

The European Commission adopted a regulation June 8 that will ban from the EU Emissions Trading System any carbon credits awarded under the U.N. Clean Development Mechanism for the destruction of certain industrial greenhouse gases

Loopholes and nonbinding targets threaten EU goals

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union
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  • May 8 2011

The Climate Action Network Europe published a study April 29 that found that the European Union's binding 2020 goals of a 20 percent cut in GHG emissions and for 20 percent of energy to be provided from renewable sources could be jeopardized by the lack of a binding energy efficiency targets and by uncertainties over enforcement

Airline emissions’ inclusion defended

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union
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  • June 12 2011

European Union Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said June 8 that inclusion of aviation in the EU Emissions Trading System is justified because the International Air Transport Association has been unable to agree on measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Indirect land use criteria may threaten biofuels

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union
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  • May 8 2011

The European Renewable Ethanol Association and the European farm trade group COPA-COGECA warned May 3 that plans under consideration by the European Commission to add indirect land use criteria for biofuel production would severely harm the industry

Allowance trading methodology outlined

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union
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  • May 1 2011

The European Commission finalized benchmarks April 27 for 52 product groups covered by the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme detailing the methodology for determining the level of free emissions allowances available for each sector under the next phase of the trading program

Binding climate treaty unexpected

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union, USA
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  • May 1 2011

At the conclusion of the two-day meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate April 27, U.S. and EU climate change officials said that it is unlikely that a new climate change treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol will be agreed to be the end of the year

Early introduction of single EU ETS

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union
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  • May 15 2011

The European Commission said May 10 that European Union member state registries for trading emission allocations under the EU's Emissions Trading System should be closed down one year earlier than previously planned and replaced with a single European registry

Rio20 should set RE, EE goals

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union
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  • October 2 2011

The European Parliament adopted a resolution September 29 advising that next year’s Rio20 sustainable development conference results in accountable global targets for renewable energy and energy efficiency

Ozone-related deaths on the rise

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union
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  • October 2 2011

The Climate-TRAP project presented a study at the European Respiratory Society’s Annual Congress in Amsterdam September 27 finding that death rates linked to climate change will increase in several European countries over the next 60 years

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