Environment

MEPs call for tougher measures against unfair imports from third countries

MEPs called on Wednesday for a 40% cut in CO2 emissions, a 30% target for renewable energy and a 40% target for energy efficiency by 2030, under the EU's new long-term climate-change policy. These targets should be binding, they say. MEPs also...

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Parliament pans Commission plan to drop national renewable energy targets after 2020

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hotly debated.

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IUCN welcomes Total’s ‘no-go’ commitment in World Heritage sites

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Mountain gorilla, Virunga National Park, World Heritage site

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Met Office warns of further storms this week

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