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Campaigners ring alarm over EU funding for gas projects through the back door
The European Commission last week published an updated methodology to assess which gas infrastructure projects will be eligible to receive EU funding, triggering warnings by environmental groups and a senior member of the European Parliament.
read more... 21/06/2021
Spanish parliament approves clean energy bill
Spain's parliament approved Thursday a clean energy bill aimed at achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 in line with EU targets, while also banning the sale of fossil fuel vehicles by 2040.
read more... 14/05/2021
European Parliament drops call to end free allowances under carbon border levy
The European Parliament on Tuesday dropped its call to phase out the free allowances industrial sectors receive through the European Union carbon market if those sectors become covered by the bloc’s planned carbon border policy.
read more... 10/03/2021
European Parliament wants expanded carbon border
All imports of products and commodities now under the EU's emissions trading system (ETS), including when embedded in intermediate or final products, should be covered from 2023 by a carbon border adjustment mechanism, the European Parliament's environment committee said today.
read more... 05/02/2021
New strategy requires UK oil and gas sector to support net-zero target
A revised Strategy from the UK’s petroleum regulator Oil & Gas Authority (OGA), featuring a range of new net-zero obligations for the UK oil and gas industry, was submitted for laying before the UK Parliament on Wednesday, 16 December 2020.
read more... 18/12/2020