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    		EU Emissions Trading System:
    The challenge of restoring credibility 

    20 March 2013 The European Union’s emissions trading system (EU ETS) is the first and still by far the world's biggest carbon market, accounting for over three-quarters of international carbon trading. By giving a financial value to each tonne of emissions produced, the EU ETS has a key role to play in Europe’s strategy for transiting to a low-carbon economy by 2050.

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    Streamlining key EU industries: In search of the optimal balance between innovation and the precautionary principle

    Application of the precautionary principle to protect health and the environment need not hold back innovation and economic progress, said speakers at the Friends of Europe's Café Crossfire debate. "[The precautionary principle] is not what is caricatured as being a stopping device for innovation, a stopping device for industry," said Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of the European Environment Agency (EEA).
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LiveWell for Low Impact Food in Europe (LIFE)

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Friends of Europe is partnering WWF in LiveWell for Low Impact Food in Europe (LIFE), a 3-year project launched in Brussels on 28 February 2012,  that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the food supply chain and to provide a healthy, sustainable and balanced diet in countries of the European Union.

  

The Second Stakeholder Workshop, that analysed the social and economic challenges and opportunities for the adoption of sustainable diets across the EU, took place in Brussels on 5 March 2013. Read more
 
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Streamlining Key EU industries: In search of the optimal balance between innovation and the precautionary principle

Application of the precautionary principle to protect health and the environment need not hold back innovation and economic progress, said speakers at  this Friends of Europe's Café Crossfire debate.


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A new energy policy for the 21st century
“If you look back at the events of the last five years – such as the Fukushima disaster, the rise of shale gas, the controversies over biofuels – I question if we can look ahead 30 years with any confidence”, states the report on Friends of Europe’s annual Energy Policy Summit, focusing on Europe’s energy outlook.

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Europe's industrial future: keeping pace with the competition
Is the decline of industrial manufacturing in Europe over exaggerated? Is a European or national industrial strategy going to be the answer? These were the two key questions posed at the Friends of Europe’s high-level debate on Europe’s Industrial Future.
  
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Europe's World


Europe’s energy cross-roads is dangerously close
by Fatih Birol Only greater efficiency will determine whether by 2020 energy will be a serious brake on the EU’s economic growth or an engine of recovery.

Navigating the Anthropocene
by Jacqueline McGlade Anthropocene is the name given to this epoch of humankind’s impact on the planet.

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EU Commission suspends use of common pesticides
The European Commission has banned three of the world’s most widely used pesticides for two years in an effort to protect the rapidly declining bee population.
IEA report reveals lack of progress towards clean energy
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), progress towards clean energy has almost come to a standstill. Energy provision today is almost as dirty as it was twenty years ago
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Watch our Café Crossfire Evening Debate on "Streamlining key EU industries: In search of the optimal balance between innovation and the precautionary principle".

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About the GEF

The Greening Europe Forum is the first independent debate and knowledge platform focussing on  global and EU policies needed for the transformation towards a sustainable economy. It will look in particular to the integration of environmental, energy and economic policies which will be needed to shift to a new development model.

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The Greening Europe Forum aims to work with partners that have an important contribution to make in the debate on the new green economy agenda. It will work with government departments and agencies, regional authorities, cities, progressive businesses and constructive NGOs, as well as critical academics.

 

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