EU Member States approved on Friday (April 28th) new limits to the pollutants European large power plants are allowed to emit. As reported by Reuters and other environmental and health non-governmental groups, the decision imposes stricter caps on emissions of some toxic pollutants, such as nitrogen oxide (NOx), sulphur dioxide (SO2), particulate matter (PM) and, read more…
Tag: EU policy
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EU Parliament approves watered down ETS reform
The European Parliament plenary on Wednesday (Feb. 15) approved the proposal to reform the EU’s emissions trading system starting 2021. The vote marks a key milestone in the reform process started in July 2015 with the first legislative proposal put forth by the EU Commission. After months of tense negotiations divided between the need to push read more…
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UK stays “committed to dealing with climate change” despite Brexit vote
Around a week after the UK voters’ decision to leave the European Union, UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Amber Rudd on Wednesday (June 29) said government’s commitment on climate change and clean energy has not changed. Delivering a speech to the Business & Climate Summit in London, Rudd assured UK will not read more…
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IN-DEPTH: Impending challenges of old age for European nuclear generation
Nuclear has been an important component of the European energy strategy for several decades. It currently accounts for around 28 percent of the EU domestic production of energy, and for about half of low carbon electricity. Its features provide security of energy supply and reduce EU reliance on fossil fuel and energy imports. However, it read more…
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IN-DEPT: EU biofuel report kept secret during Renewable Energy consultation
The public consultation period for the European Union’s (EU) Renewable Energy Directive for 2020 to 2030 ran from 18 November 2015 to 10 February 2016. Following the closure of the review period, the European Commission (EC) published the Globiom Study on indirect land use change in March 2016, despite having been in possession of the read more…
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IN-DEPTH: EFSI likely to be ineffective in spurring clean energy growth
In his political guidelines, Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, ranked as first priority the need of strengthening Europe’s economy. On 15th July 2014, he announced the launch of an investment package, later named as the European Fund for Strategic Investment, aimed at spurring EU competitiveness and stimulating investments for the purpose of job read more…
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EU Commission puts forth proposals for Energy Union and 2015 global climate deal
The European Commission on Wednesday (Feb. 25) disclosed the awaited Energy Union package, including a strategy and a roadmap to achieve an EU “resilient Energy Union with a forward looking climate change policy” and a communication on the Paris Protocol, a “blueprint for tackling global climate change beyond 2020”, that formalizes EU’s position on the read more…
