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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10789

20 February 2013
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) ets
Temporary quota freeze - environment committee in favour

Brussels, 19/02/2013 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 19 February, the members of the environment committee of the European Parliament were in favour, albeit as an exceptional measure, of a temporary freeze of 900 surplus quotas on the European carbon market. They endorsed the proposal for short term reform of the emissions trading system (ETS) submitted by the European Commission in July last year as a matter of urgency to remedy the plummeting prices for a tonne of carbon, pending endorsement...

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