NGOs are not alone in voicing criticisms of the agreement in principle reached at the Environment Council on 16 October on burden sharing for reducing greenhouse gas emissions among EU member states for sectors not covered by the carbon trading system, ETS, such as transport, agriculture and waste (see EUROPE 11884). MEP Gilles Pargneaux (S&D, France), the European Parliament’s rapporteur on the COP23 climate talks in Bonn on 6-17 November, says the Council’s general approach published...