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    UK government spells out new energy policy

    The British coalition government has fleshed out its latest thinking on how it aims to tackle the twin challenge of boosting energy security to avoid price spikes for business consumers while cutting emissions by 80% by 2050 relative to 1990 levels.

  • General Policy

    France adopts new sustainable development plan

    A new French sustainable development strategy for the period 2010-13 was adopted on Tuesday by a government committee headed by environment minister Jean-Louis Borloo. The aim is to guide policies at local, national and international levels.

  • Energy

    German firms blast plan to cut energy tax breaks

    The German industry has strongly criticised a finance ministry plan to reduce the energy tax breaks companies enjoy. The plan, leaked to journalists on Tuesday, is part of an austerity package presented in June. It could generate about €1.5bn in revenue annually.

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  • Interview

    Making a European energy network possible

    Europe’s grid operators are facing up to the challenges the transmission network needs to overcome to make the EU’s energy and environmental goals achievable.

  • Analysis

    US climate bill flop threatens global progress

    Following the American Senate’s decision to abandon comprehensive climate change legislation, how will the US meet its 17% emissions reduction commitment? And what does it mean for the EU emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) and Cancún?

  • Opinion

    The full cost of environmental liability

    With the implementation of the EU’s 2004 Environmental Liability Directive (ELD) there comes a need to reconsider the scope of environmental damage events that could give rise to liability, and to consider the potential scale of damage that could be caused.

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ENDS Europe's Sonja van Renssen asks the EEA’s Jacqueline McGlade how she expects the agency’s new biodiversity tools to help shape EU policy