Paying the Freight for Polluting the Air: Europe Takes the Lead
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Offsetting, the practice of achieving carbon neutrality, is gaining popularity among companies wishing to make a show of their green credentials.
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E.U. countries scaled back a proposal to regulate airline emissions, but agreed on measures likely to intensify a battle with the United States over environmental regulation.
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The European Commission said on Friday it has contacted a number of companies regarding their alleged participation in an air freight cartel.
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PARIS, Dec 15 (IPS) - Hundreds of flights by subsidised airlines in  Europe  are endangering the global climate and the ozone layer.  For now, they fly  free of environmental regulations.
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Three online sites - Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz - offer convenient ways to voluntarily pay to offset C0 emissions caused by a trip. Just click to have the price of the offset added to your bill.
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BRUSSELS -- Europe yesterday embarked on a bold path to fight climate change, agreeing that a fifth of the energy used by the 27-nation bloc by 2020 will come from renewable sources such as the sun and the wind, and challenging the rest of the world to follow.
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It is increasingly clear that there is a considerable cost to carbon dioxide emissions, especially to future generations.
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Asia's rapid economic expansion has turned its skies into some of world's most polluted and the region must do more to fight a scourge that is blamed for more than 500,000 premature deaths annually, delegates told a clean air conference Wednesday.
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European countries hurled down a challenge at a UN summit on climate change here Monday, calling for the world to set a goal of halving greenhouse-gas pollution by 2050.
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Because of tight regulations enacted by the European Union in 1994, proper waste disposal  has become prohibitively expensive. Enter the black-market trash brokers, who have taken to "port hopping" - moving toxic rubbish along the line of least resistance to underregulated areas in Africa or Asia.
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Some of the biggest names in European aviation team up with the EU to develop cleaner aircraft.
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From budget airlines telling us how to "fly greener" to oil giants developing cleaner fuels the corporate world is pushing its eco-credentials, often tying up with well-known environmental groups.
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Buy an airline ticket online, and you're increasingly likely to see this pitch: Add a payment of a few dollars, and finance save-the-Earth activities to offset environmental damage caused by your trip.
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Study illustrates extent to which overfishing, air pollution and commercial shipping impact oceans.
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EU ministers are poised to agree a deal on aviation that would see aircraft emissions continue to rise.
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Description: The United States and the European Union take their fight over corporate subsidies to the World Trade Organization. An initial US complaint targeted EU subsidies to aircraft manufacturer Airbus.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union's plan for capturing pollution to combat global warming lacks as much as $18 billion in needed funding, according to Alstom SA, the largest coal-fired power plant maker.