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Friday 25 July 2008

ISSUE 2544 - Monday 19 May 2008

Carbon trade experts assess world market chances

Stakeholders from regional emission trading schemes swap monitoring and reporting experience

Commission proposes EU battery waste law tweak

Officials act to avoid market turbulence by clarifying 2006 directive requirement ahead of September deadline

UN rings alarm bells over biodiversity loss

Half-measures and business-as-usual no longer acceptable, governments told as two-week UN talks begin

Swiss mull tradable freight transit permits

Bern says market system to regulate goods transport through Alpine nation not in conflict with EU obligations

NEWS IN BRIEF

NGOs celebrate ship-scrapping success

Pre-cleaning proven possible, say campaigners, as decontaminated "Otapan" sails to Turkey for scrapping