Recently added articles from Europe Environment:
ESDP : GOOD MARKS FOR MISSIONS IN PROGRESS.
Jun 04, 2009 ... The European Union's rule of law mission in Iraq is expected to be extended for one year. In the conclusions adopted on 18 May in Brussels, the External Relations Council welcomed the prospect of extension of EUJUST LEX. The ministers particularly welcomed the preparation of the first ...
109.4 BN EURO FOR FRANCE.
Jun 04, 2009 ... The European Commission has proposed to release 109.4 million from the EU Solidarity Fund following the devastation caused in South-West France by Hurricane Klaus, in January 2009. In line with Solidarity Fund rules, the aid will be used to repay the cost of emergency measures, such as ...
AER TEAMS UP WITH GE ENERGY.
Jun 04, 2009 ... The Assembly of European Regions (AER) is teaming up with GE Energy to launch European Regions Energy Day, which will be held annually in Brussels from the end of April 2010. This yearly event will bring together regional decision makers and European energy experts to review the energy ...
ENERGY : AT G8 FORUM, PIEBALGS URGES IMPROVED INVESTMENT CLIMATE.
Jun 04, 2009 ... At the G8 Energy Ministerial Meeting in Rome, EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs stressed the need for restoring confidence on energy markets to allow for necessary investment. Piebalgs told colleagues that a clear price signal in an open and transparent market would be the best tool ...
INTERVIEW WITH ERIC JOHNSON, DIRECTOR OF ATLANTIC CONSULTING : CARBON FOOTPRINTING SHOULD NOT BE OVERSOLD.
Jun 04, 2009 ... With some 100 carbon footprints and life-cycle assessments to his name, Eric Johnson, director of Atlantic Consulting, warns that the techniques should not be overstressed. Johnson has studied automobiles, consumer goods, industrial products and not least fuels - fossil fuels, biofuels and ...
EU/UN/CLIMATE CHANGE : COMMISSION KEEN TO KEEP ALL OPTIONS OPEN.
Jun 04, 2009 ... Ahead of a fresh round of preparatory negotiations for the Copenhagen United Nations Climate Change Conference (7 to 18 December) held in Bonn, from 2 to 12 June, the European Commission transmitted to the Council, on 20 May, a communication and proposal for an amendment of the Kyoto ...
EU/US : COMMISSION OBJECTS TO US SUBSIDY TO PAPER MANUFACTURERS.
Jun 04, 2009 ... A new US tax credit that will benefit American paper manufacturers up to US$8 billion in 2009 flouts international trade rules and is bad for the environment, the EU has warned. A letter jointly signed by the EU Ambassador in Washington, John Bruton, as well as Canada, Brazil and Chile was ...
NUCLEAR ENERGY : COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST SLOVAK TENDER.
Jun 04, 2009 ... Greenpeace filed, on 25 May, a complaint to the European Commission against Slovakia for allegedly "illegally" selecting Czech energy company CEZ as a key partner, with a 49% share, in the construction of a new nuclear power station at Bohunice, Slovakia. Greenpeace, which has filed ...
COMPETITIVENESS COUNCIL : CONCLUSIONS ON SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIAL POLICY.
Jun 04, 2009 ... The Competitiveness Council, meeting on 28 May, formally adopted conclusions on a competitive and sustainable industrial policy. The conclusions relate to several initiatives by the European Commission. Foremost among them are the July 2008 communication on sustainable consumption and ...
INTEGRATED MARITIME POLICY : COORDINATION GROUP TO TAKE OVER FROM ROME CONFERENCE.(Conference notes)
Jun 04, 2009 ... After three days of sector-based workshops, the 1,700 or so participants in the European Maritime Day Stakeholder Conference, held from 18 to 20 May in Rome, issued around 50 highly technical recommendations. The common denominator is the necessity for all stakeholders to develop ...
CROSS-BORDER HEALTH CARE : COR'S PES GROUP OPPOSED TO CURRENT DIRECTIVE.
Jun 04, 2009 ... The PES group in the Committee of the Regions (CoR) is not satisfied with the directive on the application of patients' rights in cross-border health care, adopted in first reading by the European Parliament's plenary, on 23 April. At a seminar entitled Cross-border cooperation on health ...
WASTEWATER : COURT OF AUDITORS WANTS MORE STRINGENT ACTION.
Jun 04, 2009 ... Wastewater treatment infrastructure co-financed by the European Union, via the Cohesion Funds and the Regional Development Funds, has brought about a considerable improvement in the coverage rate of the urban population served by a wastewater treatment system. This good mark', given by ...
EBRD FUNDS CROATIAN GAS STORAGE PROJECT.
Jun 04, 2009 ... The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing 70 million to the Croatian state-owned Plinacro gas transmission operator, allowing it to acquire a gas storage facility in Okoli, near the capital Zagreb. The EBRD announced the loan as the first of several gas ...
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT : EIB ACCEPTS OMBUDSMAN'S RECOMMENDATION.
Jun 04, 2009 ... The European Investment Bank (EIB) has decided to improve the way in which it carries out environmental impact assessments for the projects it finances. This decision(1) follows a complaint by a resident of Barcelona, who considered that the project for a high-speed railway link via this ...
EIB-BULGARIA AGGREMENT ONaURBAN DEVELOPMENT.
Jun 04, 2009 ... The European Investment Bank (EIB), the Bulgarian Ministries of Regional Development and Public Works (MRDPW), as well as of Finance signed, on 27 May, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for assisting Bulgaria's largest municipalities with drawing up integrated urban development plans and ...
EIB FINANCING FOR SMES IN CE EUROPE.
Jun 04, 2009 ... The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Erste Group Bank AG signed, on 19 May, an agreement whereby the EIB will provide finance totalling 440 million for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Central and Eastern Europe via four subsidiaries of Erste Group: Ceska Sporitelna, Erste ...
EIB LOAN FORaDANISH SMES.
Jun 04, 2009 ... The European Investment Bank signed, on 18 May, its first loan for small and medium-sized enterprises in Denmark with Ringkjobing Landbobank A/S (RL), for ...
EIB LOAN IN ESTONIA.
Jun 04, 2009 ... The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending 550 million to the Republic of Estonia for priority investments co-financed with EU funds over the period 2007-2013 in priority areas identified in the national strategic reference framework, through the co-financing of three operational ...
EIB LOAN TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE IN VIETNAM.
Jun 04, 2009 ... The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing 100 million to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam with the main purpose of part-financing investments that will contribute to the mitigation of climate change. The loan agreement was signed on 26 May. in The Ministry of Finance will make ...
CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE : ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY CALLS FOR CCS GRANT TRANSPARENCY.
Jun 04, 2009 ... The electricity association Eurelectric called once again for transparency as the European Commission and the member states start allocating funds for demonstration of technologies for carbon capture and storage (CCS). In a short report issued on 25 May, Eurelectric stated that it is ...