EMISSIONS TRADING
July 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Aluminium Association has welcomed the writing of a specific request into the European Union's new emissions trading legislation that the aluminium industry be included from the year 2008. The final shape of the directive incorporating the EU's Kyoto Protocol commitments has now been approved, covering the issuing of permits to pollute for the iron and steel sector, but not non-ferrous metal industries. These have been specifically excluded from a system that will initially focus on carbon dioxide; Member States can decide to extend ...
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