This unofficial document shows the lastest known positions of the three EU law-making Institutions, as follows: Column 1 is the Commission’s original proposal of 23 January 2008; Column 2 in the Davies Report, as adopted in Parliament’s Environment Committee on 7 October; Column 3 is the lastest available Council/Presidency draft, dated c. mid-October. While this… » read more

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Here is the Davies Report, as adopted in ENVI last week, which contains 144 amendments to the Commission’s orginal legislative proposal. The report will now go forward into the informal trilogue negotiation with Council with the aim of a 1st-reading agreement by the end of the year.

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Recently published on the European Parliament website are the 533 amendments to the Proposal for a directive on Industrial Emissions (IED), tabled by MEPs before the 11-September deadline. The Environment Committee is scheduled to vote on the amendments on Wednesday 5 November. However, as ENVI has not had the opportunity to consider the amendments before… » read more

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With fine timing, the Green Alliance in London has released a new publication A Last Chance for Coal: Making CCS a Reality that brings into focus the many aspects of current debates in Europe about the future of coal. A launch event will be held in Portcullis House (the new annex to the UK Parliament)… » read more

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Here is a list of the known CCS projects that are have been annouced or at some stage of planning. The list is compliled by certain individial staff based on the basis of press reports, word-of-mouth and other informal communications. It has no official status of any kind.

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07/10/2008 – Socialist Group introduces a “security fund” on the directive for storage of CO2

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UPDATED. Here is the roll-call data print-out from the Davies Report Article 32 vote last Tuesday. Here too is the roll-call data presented in (unofficial) table form with political groups shown in colour.

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Here’s a clean version of the Emission Performance Standard (Article 32) text as adopted in ENVI yesterday (1-page PDF).

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Here are a couple of stories on today events in EP.ENVI.Reuters: EU vote backs tough carbon caps for power plantsBloomberg: EU seeks rise in offsets (last few paragraphs) Also covered by ENDS Daily and Point Carbon, but these are subscription channels.(You can use ‘comments’ to add other stories you find.)

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