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Climate change poses 'security risk'

Climate change poses "serious security risks" and fighting it should be part of "preventive security policy", according to the European Union's top diplomats, writes Andrew Bounds in Brussels. The warning is contained in a paper prepared for an EU ...

From ANDREW BOUNDS, EcoEarth News,  2 Mar 2008
Related Topics: European Union,  Javier Solana,  Benita Ferrero-Waldner

Costs of climate fight loom over Europe's last wilderness

Villagers shell almonds in the evening shade as a pensioner wends her way home on a donkey laden with food from the market. Overhead, a rare Bonelli's eagle soars as church bells summon the faithful to mass, a sound that has echoed through ...

From VON ANDREW BOUNDS, EcoEarth News,  26 Feb 2008
Related Topics: European Commission,  European Union,  Jose Socrates,  Stavros Dimas

Portugal: Costs of climate fight loom over rural areas

While most EU countries have fully exploited hydroelectric potential, mountainous Portugal’s is only half used. It is vital to meet the country’s EU-assigned goal of lifting renewable generation from 20.5 per cent to 31 per cent in 2020. Villagers ...

From ANDREW BOUNDS, EcoEarth News,  6 Feb 2008
Related Topics: European Commission,  European Union,  Jose Socrates,  Stavros Dimas

EU outlines ambitious emissions goals

The European Union proclaimed a new era in the fight against climate change yesterday as it announced sweeping measures to cut greenhouse gases and boost renewable energy use, and called on the world to join forces in "the great project of our ...

From ANDREW BOUNDS AND TONY BARBER, EcoEarth News,  24 Jan 2008
Related Topics: European Commission,  European Union,  Andris Piebalgs

EU scientists query bloc's biofuel strategy

A plan to increase the use of biofuels in Europe, to be outlined next week, may do nothing to help fight climate change and incur costs that outweigh the benefits, says an internal European Union report. The unpublished study by the Joint Research ...

From ANDREW BOUNDS, EcoEarth News,  17 Jan 2008
Related Topics: European Commission,  European Union

France: Sarkozy attacks EU carbon targets

Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, has weighed into the controversy over the European Union's climate change plans with an attack on some proposals as "neither efficient, fair nor economically sustainable". Just six months before France takes up ...

From PEGGY HOLLINGER, ANDREW BOUNDS AND SARAH,LAITNER, EcoEarth News,  14 Jan 2008
Related Topics: European Union,  Nicolas Sarkozy,  Guy Verhofstadt,  Stavros Dimas

EU states tussle over emission promises

European states are gearing up for a rearguard action against Brussels' green energy plan, just months after many of them signed up to placing the European Union at the forefront of the fight against climate change. Just days before the European ...

From PEGGY HOLLINGER, GEORGE PARKER AND ANDREW BOUNDS AND SARAH LAITNER, EcoEarth News,  14 Jan 2008
Related Topics: European Commission,  European Union,  Nicolas Sarkozy,  Tony Blair,  Guy Verhofstadt

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