WASTE AND CLIMATE CHANGE

BY KEITH NUTHALLWITH the rulebook of the Kyoto Protocol all but written, the European Commission has been considering innovative ways in which it can help reduce the EU's production of greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.Much emphasis has been made in the past on reducing industrial pollution or emissions from cars and lorries, but Brussels has now turned its attention to a source of the gases that is very much under the control of local authorities: waste disposal.A new paper written for the Commission's directorate general by consultants AEA ...


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