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Governments must take lead as Cancún hits rock bottom

December 7, 2010

Sir, Regarding ‘Chinese pledge raises hopes of climate compromise‘: The UN has already lowered expectations of COP 16 negotiations to rock bottom, and while only the most optimistic would expect a deal to emerge from Cancún, the fundamental imperatives underlying the urgency to adopt more sustainable economies have not gone away, nor can we afford… » read more

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Business & Climate Change, Climate Change, English, Environment, Sustainable Dev., Uncategorized

CCS is a subterfuge for extracting more oil

November 15, 2010

Sir, Regarding ‘Carbon capture and storage‘: I find the whole saga of the CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) issue entirely distasteful. The oil industry magnates and the coal industry giants must be laughing all the way to the bank and their shareholders must be agreeing with them that they can make a huge killing with… » read more

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Climate Change, Energy Supply, English, Environment, Uncategorized

Intelligent Transportation Systems key to tackling congestion

November 2, 2010

Sir, Regarding ‘EU’s new transport strategy to put price on pollution‘: The most important external effect of (urban) traffic is congestion. In cities larger than about one million inhabitants, the cost of congestion far outweighs the combined costs of pollution, traffic accidents, noise and climate change. Transporting people one by one in a tonne of… » read more

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Climate Change, English, Environment, Sustainable Dev., Transport & Services, Uncategorized

Bio-economy challenges and the EU

October 26, 2010

Sir, Regarding ‘Bio-economy poses new competitiveness challenges for Europe‘: Innovation Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has highlighted an area where the EU is missing out compared to other countries – particularly the USA. It need not do so, for it actually needs to address it through a different emphasis. Firstly, the EU should seriously consider removing the… » read more

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BioTech, Climate Change, Economy & Euro, English, Environment, Sustainable Dev., Uncategorized

To 30% or not to 30%: that is the question!

October 19, 2010

Sir, It is understandable that our elected representatives in the form of the Environment Council may wish to undertake more studies on moving to a 30% reduction in CO2 emissions. After all, this is a momentous step. PWR has some very good news in this regard, which will also delight BusinessEurope. Towards the end of… » read more

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Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Energy Supply, English, Environment, Uncategorized

Finnish road is not world’s first green highway

September 7, 2010

Sir, Regarding ‘Finland eyes world’s first ‘green highway’‘: It is indeed encouraging to read your news item on Finland’s ambition to create the first green highway in the world. However, Sweden and Norway are already almost there with a similar project, ‘Green Highway’, aka the E14, which stretches from the Atlantic to the Baltic, connecting… » read more

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Climate Change, English, Environment, Sustainable Dev., Transport & Services, Uncategorized

Oil refining must be recognised as essential element of energy infrastructure

September 1, 2010

Sir, As ministers from across the EU-27 meet for the Informal Energy Council on 6-7 September, the oil refining industry urges them to recognise refining as an essential element of energy infrastructure and ensure that the Communication on Energy infrastructure includes oil pipelines and refining as a vital part of the supply chain for refined… » read more

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Business & Climate Change, Climate Change, Energy Supply, English, Environment, Uncategorized

Time for a big push on energy savings

July 23, 2010

Sir, Regarding ‘EU mulls beefing up energy savings policy‘: With the announcement that Danish MEP Bendt Bendtsen is to prepare recommendations for improving the EU’s energy savings policy, Europe’s half-hearted approach to reducing energy consumption could be about to change. Reducing energy consumption – as opposed to simply improving efficiency, which has historically rebounded in… » read more

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Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, English, Environment, Uncategorized

Carbon leakage: A positive contribution to EU 2020 emissions targets

May 25, 2010

Sir, Regarding ‘Brussels to play down ‘carbon leakage’ threat‘: We should call the bluff that industry is playing on carbon leakage. It would be more in our interests to encourage inefficient, energy-intensive, EU ETS-subsidised [European Emissions Trading Scheme] companies to exit Europe, because it could: 1) Reduce the EU’s carbon footprint rapidly and significantly. 2)… » read more

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Business & Climate Change, Climate Change, English, Environment, EU Priorities and Opinion, Uncategorized

Striking a balance on clean, efficient vehicles?

May 11, 2010

Sir, Regarding ‘Brussels pushes for electric cars‘: The European Commission (EC) released a communication on 28 April in response to a request from the Spanish Presidency to prepare a report on Clean Fuel Vehicles, focusing specifically on electric vehicles (EVs). Spain now produces as much as 30% of its electricity from renewable sources, including solar… » read more

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Climate Change, English, Environment, Transport & Services, Uncategorized

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