Portugal warns against narrow focus on 2030 target in EU climate talks
Portuguese officials are looking for ways of “bridging positions” between the European Parliament and the EU Council, with increasingly fractious conciliation talks over the proposed climate law entering the fourth round this week.
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Emissions trading at ‘core’ of new climate policy, says top EU tax official
The EU emissions trading system (ETS) is the most important of a dozen elements in the European Commission s forthcoming proposals to meet its enhanced 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target, the director general for taxation and customs union Gerassimos Thomas has said.
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Ruth H. Hodgson enjoyed 100 years of family, friendships, travel, music, theater, reading, good food and good wine before her death on January 29, 2021.
She grew up on a farm in Iowa with sisters, Vivian and MaryAlice, the daughters of Gail and Gazelle Hinton. Ruth met Harlow J. Hodgson at a local dance and married him prior to his enlistment in the Coast Guard in 1941. Her delight in travel began as she joined him on his WWII postings and continued during his employment as an agronomist for USDA in Palmer, Alaska and Washington, DC. Ruth had many wonderful talents and qualities.
Interview: The role of carbon capture in Europe’s climate targets
Jannicke Gerner Bjerkås, director of CO2 capture at Norway’s largest incineration plant, speaks to ENDS about Europe’s renewed enthusiasm for carbon capture and storage, and why going ‘carbon negative’ is no pipe dream.
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Jannicke Gerner Bjerkås: ‘For the foreseeable future, there will be a lot of residual waste that we cannot recycle’
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Several European airlines have come out in opposition to crop-based biofuels as the European Commission prepares a strategy and legislation to tackle growing emissions in the transport sector that is proving hardest to decarbonise.