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CO2 emissions could ‘strongly rebound’ this year following a historic decline in 2020 that was driven by coronavirus lockdown measures, the International Energy Association has warned.
The European aviation industry is embracing a carbon neutral pathway while angling for green funding to support its recovery from the economic shock caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
MEPs have called on the European Central Bank to consider climate change as a risk to price stability and therefore as an issue to tackle within its current mandate, in a plenary vote this morning.
Brussels’ biggest environmental organisations warned on Tuesday that “almost no one is opening the plans to public scrutiny” as governments apply for a slice of a €672bn covid recovery fund, while in Warsaw Polish NGOs and business groups publicly demanded a green “Marshall Plan”.
As vaccination campaigns offer the prospect of a return to business as usual for the tourism industry, there are signs of a push – especially in Mediterranean countries – to seize the opportunity to move towards a more sustainable model.
Suppressed electricity demand helped green sources edge past coal and gas for the first time last year to provide 38% of Europe’s electricity, but a study by Ember and Agora Energiewende shows wide variation from country to country.
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