EMISSIONS TRADING
July 1st, 2004
KEITH NUTHALLEMISSIONS trading plans for eight European Union (EU) countries - including Britain - have been approved by the European Commission, enabling 5,000 industrial plants to buy and sell pollution permits by January 2005. Brussels accepted national plans from Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Sweden unconditionally and another three - from Austria, Britain and Germany - on condition that technical changes are made, which would make them automatically acceptable. These outline the number of CO2 emission allowances that member countries intend ...
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