| Author (Person) | Chaffin, Joshua |
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| Series Title | Financial Times |
| Series Details | 18.12.08 |
| Publication Date | 18/12/2008 |
| Content Type | News |
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After eleven months of legislative work, the European Parliament gave its backing to the EU's climate change package which aims to ensure that the EU will achieve its climate targets by 2020: a 20% reduction in greenhouse Article reports that the European Parliament gave overwhelming approval on the 17 December 2008 to legislation to fight global warming but not before removing some of the lustre from a package of laws that had been celebrated as a European triumph by EU government leaders just a few days earlier Before offering their assent, several members of Parliament complained that alterations to the emissions trading system at the centre of the package were too generous to corporate interests, and that the legislation allowed member states to undertake most of their emissions reductions outside of Europe. |
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| Subject Categories | Environment |
| Countries / Regions | Europe |
