European Parliament backs strengthening of the European Emission Trading Scheme in the second round
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Improvement of the Commission proposal / EU action better than national measures
The European Parliament has voted in the second round for the strengthening of the European emissions trading. To stabilize the system certificates are to be withdrawn temporally from the market. Initially, a price of about 30 Euros was calculated but in the last months it was constantly below 5 Euros
With such a low price there is only little incentive for investments in low-carbon technologies and there are no revenues for important projects financed through climate programs.
Earmarking of revenues should pave way to more acceptance in third countries
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Parliament’s lead committee supports Commission proposal / Difficult negotiations with Council expected
An earmarking of the revenues should pave the way for more international acceptance of the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). This is the main result of a vote in the Parliament’s lead environment committee on the controversial issue of including aviation in the EU ETS. Already in 2008, Parliament and Council decided to include aviation in the ETS. But to give a positive signal to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) assembly in Montreal September/October last year the EU institutions limited the scope to intra-European flights for one year (Stop the Clock).
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Peter Liese re-elected as coordinator for the biggest group of the European Parliament
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Concrete action for the fight against antibiotic resistances needed / Ambitious climate policy with regards to energy intensive industries
Dr. Peter Liese (CDU) was unanimously elected as coordinator for environment, public health and food safety by his colleagues of the biggest group in the European Parliament (EPP-Christian Democrats). The committee has been working on the most co-decision files in the European Parliament.
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EU rapporteur supports European Commission on aviation ETS
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Airspace approach fair compromise / Equal treatment for all industries demanded
The rapporteur of the European Parliament for the inclusion of aviation in the European Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) Peter Liese (EPP) supports the European Commission in this highly controversial issue.
The Commission came forward with its proposal in reaction to the International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) General Assembly in October, which agreed to establish a global market-based system (MBM) for the reduction of international aviation emissions until 2020. The details of this MBM should be developed until the next ICAO Assembly in 2016. It is not sure if ICAO will finally suceed and what the system will look like.
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