Posted in Environment, Europe, Policy on 2008-06-26 | No Comments »
Fisheries ministers from the 27-member bloc have given their unanimous backing to Commission proposals to combat illegal fishing and protect vulnerable marine ecosystems, in a move welcomed by European environmental groups.
EU moves to combat illegal fishing, protect ecosystems>
Posted in Environment, Europe, Policy on 2008-06-04 | No Comments »
Despite heavy criticism from its industry, the US appears to be moving closer to adopting rules similar to the EU’s controversial REACH chemicals regulation. The move comes as the new European chemicals agency opens in Helsinki (3 June) amid doubts over its ability to deal with thousands of new chemicals registration requests.
US eyes REACH-style law [...]
Posted in Environment, Europe, Policy on 2008-06-02 | No Comments »
Corporations should be held liable in Europe for human rights abuses and environmental damage incurred outside the EU, according to a new legal study presented by a civil society network in the European Parliament.
Study calls for more accountability of EU corporations
Posted in Climate, Environment, Policy on 2008-05-29 | No Comments »
Climate change is increasing the risk of U.S. crop failures, depleting the nation’s water resources and contributing to outbreaks of invasive species and insects, according to a federal report.
Those and other problems for the U.S. livestock and forestry industries will persist for at least the next 25 years, said Tuesday’s report, which was compiled by [...]
Posted in Environment, Europe, Policy on 2008-05-29 | No Comments »
The European Union (EU)’s commissioner for competition Neelie Kroes said the European Commission’s new environmental state aid guidelines are more generous compared to previous guidelines.
The guidelines set out how member states can grant environmental aid to ease the burden of the shift to a low-carbon economy.
“If the aid is well-targeted, the guidelines are actually very [...]
Posted in Environment, Europe, Policy, Pollution on 2008-05-22 | No Comments »
After eight years of negotiation, the European Parliament has reached an agreement with member states on legislation that will force national governments to apply criminal sanctions to those causing deliberate or negligent damage to the environment.
EU agrees to outlaw ‘green’ crimes
Posted in Climate, Environment on 2008-05-16 | No Comments »
World biodiversity has declined by almost one third in the past 35 years due mainly to habitat loss and the wildlife trade, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said on Friday
It warned that climate change would add increasingly to the wildlife woes over the next three decades.
“Biodiversity underpins the health of the planet and [...]
Posted in Environment, Lifestyle on 2008-05-13 | No Comments »
Inhabitants of Brazil and India have the world’s most environmentally-sustainable lifestyle and Americans have the least, according to a new study tracking global attitudes towards consumption and the environment.
http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=DocDet&id=Mjk5NzY
Posted in Ecology, Energy, Environment, Policy on 2008-04-24 | No Comments »
The rejection of the Lewis wind farm this week highlights how environmentalists are lining up against each other in countryside battles.
Environmentalists are used to fighting battles. But with environmentalism going mainstream - wind farms, biofuels and nuclear power stations, for example, are fast becoming some of the most controversial issues in British politics today - [...]
Posted in Environment, Europe, Policy on 2008-04-14 | No Comments »
Three months ahead of the launch of French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s primed ‘Union for the Mediterranean’, the Commission has stepped on Paris’s toes by presenting plans to finance pollution reduction in the Mediterranean Sea.
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