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    Low Carbon Roadmap

    The European Parliament today adopted a report on EU climate change policy to 2050, endorsing the European Commission's 'Low Carbon Roadmap', which calls on the EU to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030, 60% by 2040 and 80% by 2050. The report also included a call to set aside EU emissions p...
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    Hormone-free beef

    The European Parliament today adopted an agreement, bringing an end to a long-running dispute between the EU and the US on beef imports (1). Commenting on the agreement, Green MEP José Bové, who has followed the dispute throughout, said: "This vote finally draws a line under this long-runnin...
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    Stop Climate Change Blog

    Because of Poland, the EU environment council did not manage to reach a consensus on the climate roadmap last week. All eyes are now on the European Parliament...
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    Rare Earths

    The decision by the EU, together with the US and Japan, to challenge China's rare earth export restrictions before the World Trade Organisation (WTO) takes this ongoing dispute to a new level. Building on an earlier challenge on 9 other raw materials, which yielded a successful WTO ruling Ja...
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    Co-Presidents' session briefing

    During the Strasbourg Plenary session briefing, Greens/EFA co-presidents Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit will present the key issues of the plenary session for the Greens/EFA group
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    UK opts out of school fruit scheme

    Alyn Smith MEP, Scottish full member of the European Parliament's Agriculture and Rural Development Committee, has expressed his disappointment with the decision of the UK Government to opt out of the EU's School Fruit Scheme for another year. The scheme, worth 90m EUR a year and in its fourth year ...
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    Strasbourg Flash

    Greens/EFA priorities for next week's Strasbourg Plenary include the state of nuclear power on the Fukushima anniversary, strengthening the role of cooperatives in European society, the recent elections in Russia, government violence in Syria, the low carbon roadmap...
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    Technology transfer

    Everybody is quick when it comes to asking for more technology transfer to developing countries. The parliament has stated several times in different resolutions the need to foster technology transfer. Obviously, developing countries need better access to climate friendly technology if we want to...
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    Greens/EFA conference on the problems of land grabbing around the world

    The public debate included high level speakers like Olivier de Schutter, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations on the human right to food; Renée Vellvé from GRAIN, the global network focussing on people's struggles against privatisation of natural resources; Shivani Chaudhry, an Indian human r...
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    Climate Change, Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property

    Although technological innovation is only part of the overall solution to climate change, it is an essential aspect of it. The current situation requires overcoming the dilemma between the need for widespread and rapid diffusion of knowledge and climate technologies to developing countries; and the need for incentives for technology devel…