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The EU’s carbon market reform proposal
A draft of the EU’s revised Emissions Trading Scheme confirms the European Commission’s intention to tighten the cap placed on CO2 emissions from industry and extend carbon trading to cover shipping emissions as well as road transport and heating fuels.
read more... 01/07/2021
EU's 55% carbon cut by 2030 target gets final approval
The EU’s 2030 target to cut its emissions by at least 55% from 1990 levels by 2030 has gained its final approval as the EU Council formally adopted the draft EU climate law containing it on Monday.
read more... 28/06/2021
German parliament approves stricter climate targets
Germany’s upper house of parliament on Friday approved stricter climate targets, including a 10-percentage point increase in its emissions reduction goal to 65% on 1990 levels by the turn of the decade.
read more... 28/06/2021
UK stands by offshore oil, gas licensing despite rising tensions over net-zero targets
The UK will still consider offering new offshore oil and gas licenses in the future, energy minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan said June 23, despite rising pressure on the country to ban new exploration in the wake of a landmark report on global carbon emissions by the International Energy Agency.
read more... 24/06/2021
German energy agency urges negative emissions plan
Germany needs a strategy to rapidly upscale and deploy negative greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions technologies, the country's energy agency Dena said today.
read more... 17/06/2021