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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice’s (ECJ) Court of First Instance has ruled that the European Commission had no right to reject earlier this year the UK’s increase of carbon dioxide pollution allowances under the European Union emissions trading system earlier this year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal, Canada, has agreed the final rulebook for the Kyoto Protocol, eight years after the treaty was agreed. Final differences have been ironed regarding accounting for emissions, CO2 allowances based on forests, soils and other natural resources and on data systems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ITALIAN cruise-liner will become an important air pollution monitoring station helping European scientists assess the impact of industrial and transport emissions on climate change. The European Commission and the Costa Crociere line have installed an automatic air pollution monitoring station on its Costa Fortuna ship.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers this month (November) resume their discussions on the medium-term (2007-13) budget for EU institutions, they have a lot of balls to juggle, including farm subsidies, the infamous British rebate, overall economic competitiveness and future EU research spending.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ASSESSMENT from the Kyoto Protocol Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that capturing and storing carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by power plants before it enters the atmosphere could be crucial in minimising climate change. The Geneva-based panel has estimated that capture and storage technologies could lower climate change mitigation costs over the next 100 years by 30%.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE CLEAR message from the first meeting of the Sustainable Energy Forum in Amsterdam last month (October) was that the higher the price of fossil fuels then the greater the need for national governments to support the introduction of renewable energy sources through subsidies, tax breaks, technical assistance and the like.…

BY MARK ROWE
WEATHER forecasters have always come in for criticism but the reality is that forecasting has evolved somewhat beyond the reliance of medieval truisms such as rain on St Swithun’s Day meant 40 more days of showers. And not only are today’s forecasts are more reliable than ever, with meteorologists providing long-term predictions of wet weather, heat waves and other extreme events, of incalculable value to energy and water utilities with half an eye on demand, but Britain’s Meteorological (Met) Office has taken its services one step further.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE KYOTO Protocol Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that capturing and storing carbon dioxide produced by power plants before it enters the atmosphere could minimise climate change. It said capture and storage of CO2 underground could generate up to 55% of all emission reductions needed this century for stabilising greenhouse gas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to rewrite European Union (EU) laws affecting the fishing meat industry to simplify existing EU legislation across the board, easing the sector’s understanding of often complex and baffling regulations.

Brussels has embarked on a three-year programme to scrap obsolete laws, rewrite over-complicated texts and combine overlapping directives and regulations.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has decided on an unchanged figure of Euro 450 million for conversion and restructuring in the European Union’s wine sector in 2005/6 in spite of a high level of compulsory distillation this year so far.…