SECTORAL POLICIES / Ets

Greens criticise cement industry lobbying ahead of ETS reform vote

Brussels, 07/02/2017 (Agence Europe)

If MEPs are influenced by it, the European cement industry could scupper the compromise reached in the environment committee on the long-term reform of the ETS (2021-2030), the Greens/EFA warned the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday 7 February, a week before the plenary session vote on the draft compromise that was so hard won in December 2016 to beef up the reform of the ETS while protecting energy intensive European industry (see EUROPE 11690).

For the moment, it is the compromise...