Electronic gadgets: less EU dumping in Africa
20.01.12 @ 09:28
The EU parliament has said the Union should toughen-up a new law aimed at reducing the mountains of its old electronic gadgets which go to garbage dumps in developing countries.
Highlights
China joins legal battle against EU aviation tax
21.12.11 @ 09:23
Four Chinese airlines are to join the US in a legal challenge against Europe's new carbon emission tax, which takes effect from 1 January.
EU claims climate victory but global warming goes on
12.12.11 @ 13:08
Following agreement on a new global climate deal in the early hours of Sunday morning, the EU was quick to congratulate itself on brokering a "historic breakthrough", but environmental groups and scientists say it is not enough.
Critics cry foul after EU 'stress tests' give all clear to nuclear plants
24.11.11 @ 18:24
Nuclear power plants in Europe are in good enough shape to withstand a Fukushima-type scenario, the European Commission has indicated amid scathing criticism from environmental groups.
Morocco expels EU fishing boats
15.12.11 @ 09:30
Morocco has told all EU fishing boats to immediately get out of its waters after MEPs scotched a bilateral aid agreement in a row over Western Sahara.
EU looks to 2020 for new pact on global warming
28.11.11 @ 19:48
The EU is trying to inveigle polluters into signing a "roadmap" for a 2020 climate change treaty in Durban. But Green MEPs warn the strategy will end in fiasco.
Developing world out of date on climate change, EU says
24.11.11 @ 17:46
The EU has said it will sign up to extending the international treaty on climate change but has little hope the world’s major polluters will follow suit. It also called on developing countries to commit to legally binding targets.
Blogs
Lithuania faces funding gap in dismantling Chernobyl-type plant
24.11.11 @ 08:18
A precondition for Lithuania's EU membership, the closure of its Chernobyl-type nuclear plant in Ignalina is behind schedule and faces a funding gap of €1.5 billion, Lithuania's energy minister has said. But experts question the way money was spent.
EU imposes stiff controls to block Chinese GM rice
15.11.11 @ 18:29
EU member states have slapped rigid new controls on all imports of Chinese rice products in the wake of ever-increasing detection of products 'contaminated' with unauthorised genetically modified rice.
EU to put higher pollution price on tar sands
05.10.11 @ 09:24
The European Commission on Tuesday proposed that oil derived from tar sands be given a higher greenhouse-gas emission value, a move slammed as "unjustified" and "discriminatory" by Canada, the world's largest producer of this fossil fuel.
MEPs demand action from Barroso over climate sceptic remarks
23.06.11 @ 21:54
A group of MEPs have demanded action from European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso, after the EU's budget commissioner expressed doubts earlier this month over the reality of global warming.
Big pharma should combat bee decline, MEPs say
16.11.11 @ 09:58
The European Parliament has called on the pharmaceutical industry to play a role in finding a solution to halt the rapid decline of the honey bee.
A strategy for exploiting European shale gas resources
05.10.11 @ 09:59
The EU has an opportunity to take a significant step in solving its energy problem and reaffirm its status as a major player in geopolitics. All it has to do, is embrace shale gas as part of the solution to its energy problem, advocates Dutch conservative MEP Derk Jan Eppink.
EU subsidies fuel Spain’s ravenous fleet
03.10.11 @ 09:29
Decades of overfishing have left Europe’s fish stocks in peril and its fishermen in poverty. It’s an impasse paid for by EU taxpayers. Yet a proposed revision of the EU’s fishing law, hailed as sweeping reform, is rapidly losing momentum.
US demands exemption from EU plans on aviation emissions
23.06.11 @ 09:21
Washington has officially demanded that US airlines be left out of European plans to charge airlines for carbon permits.
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