Articles containing the tag ‘EU’

10 May 2010: Can the climate wait for democracy?

Posted in Comment on 05/10/2010 10:07 am by Stephen Tindale

The world faces an urgent climate crisis. There is no time to lose. However, the UK general election has produced no winner and, at the time of writing, it is still not clear who will form the next government.

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The EU must support clean energy, not dirty coal

Posted in Policy on 07/31/2010 06:22 am by Stephen Tindale

The European Commission has proposed that subsidies to hard coal should be phased out by 2014. This is good, but must be agreed by EU national governments, some of whom will almost certainly try to extend the deadline.

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