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Background documentation

First PanelAtomdebatte statt Iranpolitik? Europas schwierige Position zwischen Iran und den USAStatement on the Islamic Republic of Iran's Nuclear IssueBaku declaration adopted by the thirty-third session of the Islamic Conference of Foreign MinistersNAM troika backs Iran over N-issueSecurity Counci...
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Energy efficiency in the EU

The EU Directive on energy end-use efficiency and energy services requests all Member States to submit their first National Energy Efficiency Action Plan (NEEAP) to the Commission by June 30, 2007. Only 3 countries, Finland, Danemark and the UK, submitted their NEEAP until now!
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Adaptation to climate change

The European Commission released today its Green Paper on adaptation to climate change. It stresses that climate change is already happening since Europe has warmed by almost 1°C over the past century. Adaptation to climate change is now an indispensable measure in complement to strong reductions of the greenhouse gas emissions.
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Trade and climate change

In the framework of the own initiative report on "Trade and Climate Change" by Greens/EFA MEP Alain Lipietz, the International Trade committee of the European Parliament will hold a mini-hearing on this topic. It will take place on Wednesday 27 June from 5 to 7.30 am in the European Parliament.
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Renewables and energy efficiency

A new analysis by the UN environment Programme (UNEP) reveals a boom in investment into renewables. The report says investment capital flowing into renewable energy climbed from $ 80 billion in 2005 to a record $ 100 billion in 2006. The UN body concludes that renewables could provide almost 25% of the world's electricity by 2030.
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Portability of supplementary pension rights

Jean Lambert, on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group. – Madam President, I would also like to thank the rapporteur for her work. Getting us to this vote has not been easy, as we have heard, because we have been forced to respond to changing and sometimes intransigent positions from the Council.My group ...
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Conference report

A Greens/EFA conference on "Transport & Climate Change" was held on the 14th July in the European Parliament. Important presentations highlighting the problems and solutions to tackling growing emissions in the transport sector were delivered to a large audience, which was followed by fruitful d...
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DOCUMENTS

This section contains a short conference report as well as presentations. It will be regularly updated with the latest documents available
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Energy markets

Yesterday evening the ITRE committee voted on the Vidal-Quadras report on the prospects for the internal gas and electricity market. The committee adopted a firm position on full ownership unbundling with a strengthening of the role of the energy regulators.
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Documents

Conference reportConference proceedings"Desertification in Europe" by Luca Montanarella"Desertification and Thematic Strategy on Soil Protection" by Claudia Olazabal "UNCCD: the Promotion of Sustainable Development" by Manour N'Diaye"Conférence sur la désertification: cas de la Mauritanie" by Moh...