Friday 25 July 2008

ISSUE 2542 - Thursday 15 May 2008

EU reaches deal on mercury export ban

Governments and MEPs agree to extend ban to compounds such as mercury chloride but not imports

Germany ring-fences carbon revenues for sinks

Gabriel says €40m annually from emission allowance auctions will fund maintenance of forests and moorland

NEWS IN BRIEF

EU-funded transport projects "put nature at risk"

Green groups warn hundreds of protected sites are under threat from trans-European transport network project

Spanish groups target Peugeot over CO2 claim

Consumer body UCE and green NGO Ecologistas pursue French carmaker over emission data

Portugal, Italy condemned for green breaches

Lisbon chastised over wastewater treatment in Estoril region;  Italy's Liguria region breaches birds law