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    Press release |

    Global environment policy

    The UN sustainable development summit in Rio de Janeiro - Rio plus 20 - will draw to a close today with a declaration, the contents of which were agreed earlier in the week between negotiators before the high-level ministerial segment of the summit had even begun. Commenting on the summit and the de...
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    RIO + 20 Diary

    It was strange for ministers to land to discover what appeared to be an already agreed document. Some countries arrived with the intention of negotiating at ministerial level, which would have increased political ownership. The NGO community was very clear that the text as it stood was completely out of touch with reality, lacking mention…
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    Video |

    INTA Committee vote against ACTA

    Final vote in International Trade Committee (INTA) Centre-Right EPP and ECR Groups fail to have vote postponed. Final vote goes ahead, in public, and Trade committee recommends rejection of ACTA! There is hope! After the trade committee vote to recommend rejection of ACTA, the final plenary vote will take place in Strasbourg during …
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    News |

    The challenge in Rio

    Brazil illustrates the ‘destruction as usual' status quo that we need to change.
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    Video |

    Legal Affairs - Shale gas

    As a report in the Environment committee on the environmental impacts of shale gas makes it way through the European Parliament, two other committees, Development and Legal Affairs, voted on their own opinions on the report today. In both cases, Green MEPs drafted the opinions and negotiated them through choppy political waters before the…
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    News |

    Shale Gas

    As a report in the Environment committee on the environmental impacts of shale gas makes it way through the European Parliament, two other committees, Development and Legal Affairs, voted on their own opinions on the report today. In both cases, Green MEPs drafted the opinions and negotiated them th...
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    Press release |

    Oversize trucks

    The EP is set to challenge a controversial decision by EU transport Commissioner Siim Kallas to push forward with proposals to reverse current EU policy on heavier and longer trucks (Directive 96/53/EC) without involving the European Parliament and Council as co-legislators. The Commissioner wants t...
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    News |

    Greens/EFA Round-up

    Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week included border controls and preserving Schengen, preferential trade for poor countries, Eurozone economic governance, regulating the global arms trade, own resources and the EU budget, safer baby food through EU rules, fixing EU fisheries, ...
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    Video |

    Lobbies produce too much electronic waste

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    Press release |

    Emissions trading scheme

    In the context of last night’s agreement between the European Parliament and Council on new EU energy efficiency legislation (1), the European Commission committed to address the current problems with the EU’s emissions trading scheme (2). Following the statement, Green MEP and European Parliame...