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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/climate/transport

Commission to launch consultation on future contribution of maritime sector to fight against climate change, this autumn

Brussels, 18/04/2007 (Agence Europe) - The state of the climate is closing in on the transport sector. After civil aviation, which the Commission has proposed to include in the greenhouse gas emissions quota trading system (ETS) between now and 2011, it is now the turn of maritime transport to join the ETS.

The European Commission intends to make a proposal to this end before the end of the year, if no agreement can be reached within the International Maritime Organisation on the reduction...

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