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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10420

16 July 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/environment
Reduction in air pollution from shipping

Brussels, 15/07/2011 (Agence Europe) - In order to improve air quality in the EU, the shipping industry has to take action because if things remain as they are, then by 2020, shipping alone will produce more pollution than all sources of land-based air pollution combined. The European Commission therefore wants to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions from ships in the EU by 90% by 2020 and fine particles from shipping fuel by 80% by the same year, and it published proposals to this end on Friday...

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