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    Trade and climate change

    In the framework of the own initiative report on "Trade and Climate Change" by Greens/EFA MEP Alain Lipietz, the International Trade committee of the European Parliament will hold a mini-hearing on this topic. It will take place on Wednesday 27 June from 5 to 7.30 am in the European Parliament.
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    Renewables and energy efficiency

    A new analysis by the UN environment Programme (UNEP) reveals a boom in investment into renewables. The report says investment capital flowing into renewable energy climbed from $ 80 billion in 2005 to a record $ 100 billion in 2006. The UN body concludes that renewables could provide almost 25% of the world's electricity by 2030.
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    Portability of supplementary pension rights

    Jean Lambert, on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group. – Madam President, I would also like to thank the rapporteur for her work. Getting us to this vote has not been easy, as we have heard, because we have been forced to respond to changing and sometimes intransigent positions from the Council.My group ...
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    Conference report

    A Greens/EFA conference on "Transport & Climate Change" was held on the 14th July in the European Parliament. Important presentations highlighting the problems and solutions to tackling growing emissions in the transport sector were delivered to a large audience, which was followed by fruitful d...
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    DOCUMENTS

    This section contains a short conference report as well as presentations. It will be regularly updated with the latest documents available
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    Energy markets

    Yesterday evening the ITRE committee voted on the Vidal-Quadras report on the prospects for the internal gas and electricity market. The committee adopted a firm position on full ownership unbundling with a strengthening of the role of the energy regulators.
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    Documents

    Conference reportConference proceedings"Desertification in Europe" by Luca Montanarella"Desertification and Thematic Strategy on Soil Protection" by Claudia Olazabal "UNCCD: the Promotion of Sustainable Development" by Manour N'Diaye"Conférence sur la désertification: cas de la Mauritanie" by Moh...
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    Report of the conference

    Opening the conference Marie-Anne Isler-Beguin, MEP, highlighted the fact that 2006 was the International Year of Deserts and Desertification but little was done to promote the issues. Therefore, she welcomed participants to this conference noting that desertification was the poor relation internati...
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    Ban the bulb

    The Greens' written declaration for an immediate ban on the sale of incandescent light bulbs in the EU, got eventually 193 signatures from the MEPs. It is less than the 393 necessary for the adoption by the European Parliament. Clearly non-green MEPs like to speak about climate change but fail to act concretely!
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    Outcome G8 summit

    The G8 deal is clearly not enough to prevent dangerous climate change as it was only agreed to "consider seriously the decisions made by the European Union, Canada and Japan which include at least a halving of global emissions by 2050". But the G8 agreed that the process should take place within the U.N. framework, starting in Bali in Dec…