DYE INDUSTRY SUB-SECTORS EXEMPT FROM CARBON AUCTION
September 1st, 2009
BY EMMA JACKSON
KEY elements of the European Union (EU) dye industry should be exempt from the EU's plans to auction carbon dioxide emissions permits from 2013. The European Commission unveiled September 18 a draft list of businesses it fears could relocate to jurisdictions with weaker pollution rules. If they stay, these industries would have free carbon credits from 2013 to 2020, with pollution permits capped at 2007-8 levels of a particular sector's most efficient 10% of companies.
Dye industry sub-sectors receiving this treatment include manufacturers of ...
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