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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

EU announces vehicle efficiency measures

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

On September 29, the advocacy group Transport and Environment released a report concluding that cars sold in the European Union are becoming more fuel-efficient, cheaper to run, and less polluting, demonstrating the value of 2008 legislation mandating carbon dioxide emissions from the passenger car fleet cannot average more than 130 gkm by 2015

Fluorinated gas controls boost GHG efforts

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

The European Commission released a report September 26 finding that stricter controls on fluorinated gases could provide a cost-effective boost to European Union efforts to reduce GHG emissions 80 percent or more by 2050

No EU paper for COP

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

The European Commission will decline to publish a position paper setting out its objectives for the year-end Conference of Parties in South Africa

Free carbon allowances for airlines

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

The European Commission finalized a method September 26 to assign free carbon allowances to airlines that must participate in the European Union’s Emissions Trading System beginning in 2012

EU Commission adopts law to offset carbon targets

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union
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  • July 31 2011

On July 25, the European Commission implemented a law that informs automakers how to use “eco-innovations,” for cars sold in the European Union, in an effort to meet vehicle emissions reduction targets

EU Parliament committee asks for tougher transportation standards

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union
  • -
  • November 27 2011

On November 22, by a vote of 35-5, the European Parliament’s transportation committee passed a resolution calling on the European Commission to introduce legislative proposals to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from road transportation by 20 percent and from aviation and shipping by 30 percent compared to a 2010 baseline

EU bioethanol investigation

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union, USA
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  • November 27 2011

On November 25, the European Commission launched an illegal trade investigation into bioethanol imports from the United States to determine if the U.S. imports of bioethanol are having an illegal adverse impact on EU-based producers, and promised provisional conclusions by August 2012

EU expands GHG reporting

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • November 27 2011

On November 23, the European Commission announced revised rules expanding annual greenhouse gas emissions data, to include data on maritime transportation, non-carbon dioxide aviation emissions, as well as land use and land-use change data

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