Climate change policy

European Union leaders agreed Oct. 24 what they hailed as the world's most ambitious climate change targets for 2030, paving the way for a new UN-backed global treaty next year.
      
The 28 leaders overcame deep divisions at a summit in Brussels to reach a deal including a commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent compared to 1990 levels.
      

The European Commission has found on Wednesday that the Romanian green certificate reduction scheme, reducing the contributions of certain energy-intensive users to the financing of renewable energy, is in line with EU state aid rules, the EU executive said in a press release.

BELGRADE- Serbian Minister of Agriculture Snezana Bogosavljevic-Boskovic will participate in two conferences on sustainable, 'green' energy and organic food production, scheduled for October 9 and 10 in Vienna.

From the very beginning, Turkey has had a very problematic relationship with climate change talks.

From the very beginning, Turkey has had a very problematic relationship with climate change talks.

After 1989, Romania has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions to less than half, Environment Minister and Vice President of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), Attila Korodi told the U.N. Summit on Climate Change in New York.

A UN summit on climate change agreed to widen the use of renewable energy and raise billions of dollars in aid for developing countries in an effort to increase the prospects for a wide-ranging deal to slow global warming

Romania plays an important role in what regards the process of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, especially in southeastern Europe, said, on Thursday, Jian Xie, an expert on environment with the World Bank, during a specialist conference.

An increasing number of big corporations expect governments worldwide to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions to help tackle climate change

By Dimitra Manifava

The government is examining the possibility of reducing the value-added tax on milk to the lowest bracket of 6.5 percent, as it sees no other way of reducing the price of milk on store shelves, according to sources.

The decrease from the current rate of 13 percent could bring about a reduction of 8 to 10 cents per liter.