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Association for a European Competitive Industry viciously attacks European Commission |
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Tuesday, 11 May 2010 13:58 |
Industry claims are out of touch with economic reality
Last week Europe’s major polluters - represented by the Association for a Competitive European Industry (ACEI) - launched an unwarranted and vicious attack on the Europ  ean Commission’s latest economic assessment of the move to a 30% GHG reduction target. by 2020. ACEI claims, without providing any evidence, that a move to 30% would harm European competitiveness. A leaked draft communication from the Commission clearly lays out, with the help of advanced economic models, that a 30% target has become much more affordable than 2 years ago. This assessment is backed up by earlier independent research of the International Energy Agency and market analysts New Energy Finance. The IEA and the European Commission confirm that without any intervention, emissions under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) in 2020 - representing up to 45% of EU emissions - will be at the same level as in 2008.
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Unused recovery funds targeted toward energy savings |
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Wednesday, 05 May 2010 18:37 |
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CAN Europe and EEB welcome the European Commission's announcement today that unspent money from the Economic Recovery Fund will be used to leverage money for energy efficiency and renewables undertakings.
"Energy efficiency and renewables projects have enormous potential to generate safe local jobs, at the same time as contributing at low or negative cost to the achievement of climate and resource efficiency objectives," said Erica Hope, CAN Europe Energy Savings Policy Officer.
Green groups have been campaigning to ensure the Commission kept its earlier promise to channel unused recovery funds into efficiency and renewables projects.
Links to complete press release and NGO letter to the Commission |
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Having your cake and eating it too: chemical sector exposed in sabotaging international climate regime |
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Thursday, 29 April 2010 10:57 |
Last week The Guardian revealed that the chemical industry is behind a lobbying campaign aimed at preventing the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the United States’ Environment Protection Agency (EPA).
   Court documents show that the European chemical firm Solvay is at the heart of this campaign. The US court document linking Solvay to this campaign can be found  here.
Back in Europe that same sector and company is using the mantra that "Europe cannot act alone" and lobbies strongly against more ambitious climate action. This is the same as saying that if the US takes no action to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, why should the EU do so? If we put both the EU and US actions of Solvay together we see a very cynical ploy to undermine all climate action on an international scale. It is exactly such lobbying activities that led to the weak outcome in Copenhagen.
CAN-Europe believes that European policy makers have to be very aware of those actions which are detrimental to avoiding dangerous climate change and take them into account when they deal with such companies and sectors.
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Something resembling progress in Bonn |
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Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:04 |
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The UNFCCC hosted a short meeting in Bonn (April 9 - 11) to determine the agenda for the global climate negotiations for the rest of 2010. After the international belly flop in Copenhagen, it was clear that the single two-week session scheduled for June in Bonn would not be nearly enough time for all 192 parties to adequately prepare for the next Conference of Parties (COP-16) in Cancun, Mexico in late November.
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