Press release from WWF European Policy Office, following today’s provisional agreement (first reading) on a new Industrial Emissions Directive by EU environment ministers.

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UPDATED with extra links. Press release here. Consultation paper here. Background materials here. UK NGO joint statement. UK CCSA reaction here. Other news links [send them to me].

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The new Inconvienient Truth.

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Links: DG.ENV Non-paper. Greenpeace. Greens. Thanks to ENDS Europe Daily for posting the documents on-line. If there are other (published) position papers on this topic, please tell me and I shall be happy to add the links.

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The Synthesis Report of the Copenhagen Congress on Climate Science, held 10-12 March, will be presented in Brussels on Thursday 18 June by the Prime Minister of Denmark Lars Løkke Rasmussen. The next European Council (summit of heads of government and state) will begin later the same day.

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The Union’s 2008 climate & energy package, including the CO2 Geological Storage Directive 2009/31, was published in the EU Official Journal last Friday. Link to edition L140 here.

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Greenpeace UK video story of the successful Kingsnorth Six action against new unabated coal: A Time Comes.

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Remarks by senior climate minister Ed Milliband, as reported in The (London) Times: link.

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Press coverage by BBC and ITN. Plus: a new WWF-UK briefing paper that argues for demonstrating post-combustion capture on an existing installation rather than a new one.

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UK MPs Elliot Morley and Charles Kennedy together with Christain Aid and WWF will hold a panel debate in Parliament in London on 16 June. Invitation.

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