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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

EU biofuel policy clouded

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union
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  • October 9 2011

A scientific committee of the European Environment Agency concluded in a recent report that miscalculations were made when the European Union agreed in 2008 to include biofuels as a key to achieving a goal built around having ten percent of all transportation fuels come from renewable energy by 2020

Oil sands GHG intensity rating

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union
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  • October 9 2011

The European Commission triggered a potential dispute with Canada October 4 by proposing that EU legislation consider fuel derived from oil sands to be 22.3 percent more GHG intensive than fuel from conventional crude oil

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

EU ETS GHGs rose

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union
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  • May 22 2011

The European Commission released verified data May 17 showing that power plants and industrial facilities covered by the European Union's Emissions Trading System generated 3

Possible negative effects of carbon sequestration

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union
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  • November 20 2011

On November 17, the European Environment Agency (EEA) released Air Pollution Impacts From Carbon Capture And Storage finding that widespread deployment of carbon sequestration can increase the emissions of some harmful pollutants like ammonia because it requires more coal to be mined, transported and burnt, and is less environmentally friendly than switching to gas fired generation

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

Poland to assume EU presidency

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union, Poland
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  • June 5 2011

Poland is preparing to assume the six-month presidency of the European Union as the block ponders whether to raise its 2020 goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, potentially before the next U.N. climate summit at the end of the year

Airline challenge decision

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

Attorneys said August 31 that the Court of Justice of the European Union will issue an opinion by late this year on a challenge to the inclusion of U.S. airlines in the European Union’s Emissions Trading System

European biofuels supported

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

The European Commission defended November 21 that biofuels can positively contribute toward European Union climate and energy objectives despite growing scientific evidence that mandatory biofuels targets pose significant environmental risks

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