EUROPEAN COMMISSION’S CLIMATE CHANGE PACKAGE FACES STORMY WATERS
January 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL and CHRIS JONES, in Brussels
INTENSE well-informed debates are likely to follow the release in January of a comprehensive package of legislation by the European Commission on fighting climate change through emissions trading, renewable energy, pollution caps, biofuels and environmental state aid. However, thus far, insufficient opposition has yet to emerge on any of these proposals to endanger their passage onto the European Union's (EU) statute book, albeit probably with a few important amendments included.
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