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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12776
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Energy

Global CO2 emissions from power sector have increased by 5% compared to pre-Covid levels, according to Ember

After a decline due to the Covid-19 pandemic, global CO2 emissions from the power sector have risen again in the first half of 2021, increasing by 12% compared to the lowest levels observed in the first half of 2020.

They are now 5% above the pre-pandemic levels of the first half of 2019, according to new data published on Wednesday 25 August by the think tank Ember.

This “rebound” in emissions is mainly due to the increase in coal-fired power generation to meet rising global...

Contents

FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS - SOCIETAL ISSUES
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: Commission’s plan on mutual recognition of parenthood in EU raises interest and controversy
SECTORAL POLICIES
ENERGY: EU rules revising Gas Directive must apply to Nord Stream 2, says German court
ENERGY: global CO2 emissions from power sector have increased by 5% compared to pre-Covid levels, according to Ember
HOME AFFAIRS: more than 20,000 European Arrest Warrants were issued in EU in 2019
EXTERNAL ACTION
AFGHANISTAN: some 60 MEPs call on EU to set up humanitarian corridors
INSTITUTIONAL
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: Paulo Rangel calls for a direct right of initiative for European Parliament
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
BANKS: Commission supports Latvia in deposit guarantee schemes case between Riga and Sweden
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
MIGRATION: Poland must guarantee human rights of people blocked at its border with Belarus, warns Dunja Mijatović
HEALTH: European Court of Human Rights rejects application by French firefighters opposed to compulsory Covid-19 vaccination
NEWS BRIEFS
SPACE: last step before adoption of updated environmental geospatial data sharing rules
TAXATION: Emmanuel Macron and Bruno Le Maire in Dublin to discuss global corporate tax reform
CSDP: Jacques Langlade de Montgros, new Force Commander of EUTM RCA
UNITED KINGDOM: France calls for EU-UK migration agreement
HEALTH: European Commission officially launches European Clinical Trials Information System (CTIS)
HEALTH: EMA gives green light to increase production capacity of Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines
TRANSPORT: air passenger traffic in EU down 76.9% in first half of 2021 compared to 2019