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Really scary findings in new report from British Antarctic Survey. CO2-emissions have risen with 35 percent m o r e than expected since 2000. IPCC has been far too modest in their predictions…

Yesterday the amendment below passed in the Climate Committee. Great! Now this, and he whole report – from Satu Hassi on the EU policy on the Bali summit in December – will be voted in plenary in november. I hope it will pass there too. Amendment by Roberto Musacchio, Jens Holm, Dimitris Papadimoulis, Umberto Guidoni…

I have just had a meeting with Commissioner Stavros Dimas about the possibility to phase out experiments on primates and the revision of directive 86/609. I have just had a meeting with Commissioner Stavros Dimas about the possibility to phase out experiments on primates and the revision of directive 86/609. The news was: 1. It…

One of the worst parts about being a member of the EU parliament is all of these flights. About three times a month I fly to Brussels and once a month to Strasbourg. I’ve calculated that during a year it’s at least 100,800 kilometers of flying! That’s the equivalent of two-and-a-half times around the world…

The European Parliament’s environment committee has demanded considerable changes to the Commission’s proposals for how air transport will be dealt with in the carbon dioxide emissions trading scheme. Among other things, the environment committee is calling for a considerably larger part of the emissions rights to be auctioned. ”The industry’s interests are a spanner in…