Belgium Green News

Prices for benchmark European Union carbon emission permits fell 2 percent on Friday, as traders viewed the previous session's gains as short-lived. EU Allowances for December delivery were down 26 cents or 2.01 percent at 12.67 euros ($18.91) a tonne...

The European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday (25 November) adopted legislation on the project, which will come into effect in 2012. The labelling system is much the same as the bloc's existing labelling for energy-intensive household appliances such as fridges...

Canada and 19 other countries have been accused of not living up to their collective vow in 2001 to fund climate change initiatives in the developing world, the British Broadcasting Corporation reported Wednesday. The 2001 Bonn Declaration was struck by...

The case concerns inadequate waste disposal facilities in Sofia. Bulgaria should have had an adequate network of waste disposal installations in place by the time it joined the EU on January 1 2007 but no solution is in place. Sofia...

DuPont Co., Intel Corp. and Southern Co. are among companies urging U.S. lawmakers to include more "international offsets" for pollution in Senate legislation aimed at capping greenhouse gases. Limiting the number of cheap emissions credits that can be imported from...

The minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh announced the newly notified Revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards-2009 which provides a legal framework for control of air pollution and protection of public health. "We have removed the distinction...

The energy efficiency of a device is rated in terms of a set of energy efficiency classes from A to G on the label, with a dark-green-coded A the most energy efficient and a red-coded G the least efficient. "A+"...