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Market distorting impacts of free EUA allocation to energy intensive industries

By Nick Mabey and Jesse Scott

The European Parliament’s Environment Committee recently supported a revision of the EU’s Emission Trading System which will help deliver the Union’s target of a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

Against strong industry lobbying, the Committee supported a key proposal to limit the allocation of free permits to energy intensive industries. On September 26, 2008 in a

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Europe’s World: An EU-China pact is key to a global climate deal

By Nick Mabey

Europe and China have much more in common on both energy security and the climate change issue than is generally realised, say Bernice Lee and Nick Mabey. They set out the elements of a close new partnership.

The EU’s progress toward a low-carbon economy is being watched in US, China and India, whose genuine commitment to decarbonisation in these three key countries will only materialise if

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Europe: delivering the Global Deal

By Nick Mabey

The political conditions do not exist for a global climate deal. In a recent presentation, E3G Chief Executive Nick Mabey highlights the priorities for EU climate action in 2008.

European leadership is vital, but EU climate politics are vulnerable and need investment. Europe must immediately focus on shaping its strategic relationships with the US and China, and key decisions by

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Un budget européen pour l’avenir

By Jesse Scott

In April E3G submitted a thinkpiece to the European Commission’s consultation on the future of the EU Budget. We’ve now produced a French version of our paper - the summary follows below and the full version is attached in pdf format for download. We’ll be discussing this paper at an event in Paris on 16th June, hosted by IDDRI and Sciences Po.

Un budget européen pour l’avenir

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Europa în lume: Romanian pamphlet now published

By Chris Littlecott

Thanks to the support of our colleagues at the Regional Environmental Centre, the Romanian language version of our ‘Europe in the World’ pamphlet has now been published.

The full version of the pamphlet is attached here for download as a pdf [400Kb].

Following below is the summary to provide a taster of the pamphlet’s arguments about the future of the EU in an interdependent

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Central and Eastern Europe’s climate change opportunity

By Tom Burke, Chris Littlecott and Nick Mabey

“Missing today’s chance to build a low-carbon economy would be a costly mistake handed on to future generations”, is the argument we make in an opinion article published in the Regional Environmental Centre’s Green Horizons magazine.

A pdf version of the magazine is available for download from the Green Horizons website.

Central and Eastern Europe’s climate change opportunity

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Europa w świecie: Polish pamphlet now published

By Chris Littlecott

Thanks to the support of our colleagues at the Regional Environmental Centre, the Polish language version of our ‘Europe in the World’ pamphlet has now been published.

The full version of the pamphlet is attached here for download as a pdf [1.4Mb].

Following below is the summary to provide a taster of the pamphlet’s arguments about the future of the EU in an interdependent

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Investing in our future: a European budget for climate security

By Chris Littlecott

Stephen Hale and Stuart Singleton-White of Green Alliance have just published an excellent pamphlet on the topic of the EU budget review, which they launched in Brussels on 17th October.

Their report teases apart the political significance of the EU’s stated aims on energy and climate security. They rightly focus attention on the need for the EU to match its aspirations with how it really

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The Value of Pan-European Citizen Deliberation

By Chris Littlecott

The weekend of 11th-13th October saw the first ever multi-lingual and pan-european deliberative poll take place in Brussels. E3G is a partner of this Tomorrow’s Europe initiative, and I was there to see how things took shape.

During the weekend I wrote an article for the dLiberation blog over on openDemocracy, which has been tracking the poll process. If you’d like to comment, I’d suggest you

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EU Priorities: web poll highlights climate change

By Chris Littlecott

I recently saw that the homepage of the European Commission’s Representation in the UK includes a web poll entitled “What should be the new main challenge for the EU?”

The top response so far is ‘Fighting climate change’ – way out in front of the other options.

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It will be interesting to see if votes for ‘Making the institutions closer to the citizens’

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