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Argentina WTO dispute initiated

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Argentina, European Union, Global
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  • May 20 2013

On May 15, Argentina launched a World Trade Organization claim against the European Union and its member states on biodiesel importation. Argentina

WTO ruling against Ontario welcomed

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union, Global
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  • December 23 2012

The European Union applauded the publication of a World Trade Organization dispute panel ruling December 19 backing a complaint they and Japan filed

WTO rare earth dispute resubmitted

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • China, European Union, Global, Japan, USA
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  • July 15 2012

The European Union, Japan, and the United States placed July 13 a second request on the World Trade Organization’s July 23 Dispute Settlement Body agenda asking the organization to establish a dispute panel to rule whether China’s restrictions on rare earths exports violate global trade rules

ICAO emissions reductions efforts

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union, Global
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  • July 1 2012

On June 29, the International Civil Aviation Organization's Ad Hoc Working Group on Market-Based Measures is working on three options for a global, market-based system for reducing airlines' greenhouse gas emissions, in order to defuse industry and government tension over the unilateral creation of an EU aviation emissions trading system

EU technical support

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union, Global
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  • June 24 2012

European Union Commissioner Andris Piebalgs announced at the Rio20 summit June 20 that the European Union will create an EU Technical Assistance Facility, initially worth $62.6 million over the next two years to provide access to sustainable energy services to 500 million people by 2030

International

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada, China, European Union, Global, United Kingdom
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  • May 13 2012

The European Chemical Industry Council announced May 8 that it will monitor its environmental sustainability by tracking indicators like greenhouse gas and acidifying gases emissions and waste generation

Short-lived pollutant coalition

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Colombia, European Union, Global, Japan, Nigeria, Norway, USA
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  • April 29 2012

Norway, Nigeria, Colombia, Japan, the European Commission, and the World Bank joined a coalition April 24 formed earlier this year by the United States and other countries to curb black carbon, methane, and hydrofluorocarbons

Global aviation emissions negotiations

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union, Global
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  • March 25 2012

Speaking at the annual Aviation and Environment Summit March 21, Mary Veronica Tovsak-Pleterski, director for European and International Carbon Markets with the European Commission’s Directorate General for Climate Action, said that the European Union is ready to secure a global deal on reducing air transit emissions, but that it will not suspend application of its Emissions Trading System to encourage a multilateral solution

Kyoto’s next commitment period suggested by EU

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union, Global
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  • March 18 2012

On March 9, all of the European Union’s member country environmental ministers, meeting at the EU Environment Council in Brussels, announced that the Kyoto Protocol’s second commitment period should run from January 1, 2013 until December 31, 2020

WTO Ontario FIT ruling forthcoming

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada, European Union, Global, Japan
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  • March 11 2012

A World Trade Organization dispute panel announced last week that it will issue a ruling by September on Japan’s claims that provisions in Ontario’s green energy program violate global trade rules