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December Copenhagen climate conference: who bets on an agreement being reached?
Faced with an American “green team” who present themselves as the epitomy of efficiency in regards to all things green, the experts are asking themselves. Will Europe head the fight against global warming this year?
environmental protection, copenhagen, denmark, energy, green cities, renewable energies, climate change
Biofuels: how green is the green gold rush in Senegal?
Europe’s Sustainable Energy Week takes place in Brussels from 9 to 13 February, with biofuel at the centre of the debates. Is it possible for Europe to go green without causing famine in western Africa? Feature
environmental protection, agriculture, feature, transport, europe, biofuel, best of cafebabel.com
Kyoto Protocol: results and predictions
The European Union ratified the UN-led pact to combat global warming on 31 May 2002, and it came into force on 16 February 2005. How much progress has been made in the fight against CO2?
environmental protection, kyoto, ecology, european union, environment, eudebate2009
Bulgarian environmentalists defy developers
Hotels and ski resorts: more and more Bulgarians are taking a stand against environmental destruction. The cases of Strandszha park and the Rila mountains in the country's south-west
environmental protection, corruption, bulgaria, naturschutz, society, politics, environment
The pesticide blacklist
The European parliament will come to a decision about the burning issue during its first plenary session of the year. Latest titbit news from Brussels
environmental protection, european parliament, health, health, european elections 2009, environment, eudebate2009
Did you know that 35% of the EU is woods
35% of land in the EU is wooded. As well as being a not inconsiderable source of revenue for the EU, the forestry industry also provides a cheap and green form of heating. Community institutions have certainly taken this into account. in 2006 they announced an action plan to increase the competitiveness of the forestry sector, protect the environment and also acknowledge that forests form a part of Europe’s cultural heritage
environmental protection, money, grand projects, european elections 2009, economy, environment, eudebate2009
Climate change: transatlantic time keeping
In the EU, leaders struggle to commit to one package. In the US, presidential elections breathe priority back into the issue. As Nordic environmental ministers meet in Helsinki on 28 October, a side glance on where the climate sands in the hourglass are turning. An UN summit will be held in December, in the Polish city of Poznan
- Read the special edition Climate change: transatlantic time keeping
- Climate change conference in December: previewing Poznan
- Photos: 'Climate Refugees' from New Orleans to Germany
- Germany leads Europe's wind and solar energy revolution
- Quotes: US-Europe politicians talk climate change
- Notes from an EU science parliament: ten climate friendly energy tips
Mick Jagger advises the EU commission
Regulating internet music sales and multimedia content on the web, counterfeit medicine and parliament television – the latest news from Brussels. Weekly edition
environmental protection, media, music, euweek, european media, mick jagger, eu-nachrichten
Europe begins to go green
For an economy to reduce its carbon emissions whilst still continuing to grow requires certain flexibility. Such malleability is going to be necessary when the European Climate and Energy Package comes into being.
environmental protection, energie, green cities, economy, climate change, politics, environment
Expo Zaragoza 2008 - at boiling point
On 14 June the International Zaragoza Expo opens its doors to the public, the sixth time that the exhibition has taken place on European soil in twenty years
environmental protection, wasser, weltausstellung, expo saragossa, björk, zaragoza, spain
A second life for the inhabitants of Chernobyl
Built 50 km from the Chernobyl plant, the town of Slavutych welcomed inhabitants displaced after the catastrophe of 1986. 20 years on, the ashes still cannot stop burning
environmental protection, nuclear energy, russian federation
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