The European Commission was sent back to the drawing board on the EU’s renewable energy directive overhaul after an internal assessment of its draft proposal concluded that it failed to analyse the potential environmental risks of increased bioenergy use.
The European Commission’s Regulatory Scrutiny Board, an in-house independent body overseeing the quality of EU legislation, sent a negative opinion on the EU executive’s draft renewable energy directive.
In the opinion, dated 19 April, the board said the Commission’s cost-benefit analysis of the directive contained “significant shortcomings”.
“The presentation of the analysis and comparison of the options is often confusing or incomplete,” the board said, adding this was the case “in particular” when it comes to “the options related to bioenergy” and their likely impact on EU member states.
Robert Bullard Isn’t Done Yet
More than 40 years after the Texas Southern University professor researched the first environmental justice case, communities of color still face an uphill battle claiming their right to clean air and a healthy neighborhood. Federal environmental justice legislation could change that.
More than 40 years after the Texas Southern University professor researched the first environmental justice case, communities of color still face an uphill battle claiming their right to clean air and a healthy neighborhood. Federal environmental justice legislation could change that.
Robert Bullard Isn’t Done Yet
More than 40 years after the Texas
Southern University professor researched the first environmental justice case, communities of color still face an uphill battle claiming their right to clean air and a healthy neighborhood. Federal environmental justice legislation could change that.
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To prevent the worst impacts of global warming, the United States must achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that world carbon emissions must reach net zero around 2050 to limit global warming to 1.5°C over preindustrial levels – the level beyond which catastrophic climate changes could occur.[i]
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