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Germany postpones vote on fracking amid coalition dispute over details
The debate about a legislative package regulating the controversial fracking technology was postponed due to concern from within the parties of Conservatives (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD), in particular against the involvement of an expert commission. The Lower House of Parliament (Bundestag) was supposed to debate this Friday, the last day before the traditional summer break.
read more... 02/07/2015
Norway parliament votes to reduce coal investments
Norway's parliament voted on Friday to cut coal investments by its $880 billion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, in a decision greeted by ecologists as a model to support slow climate change.
read more... 08/06/2015
French lawmakers reinstate nuclear reduction goal, decisive vote in July
The lower house of parliament in France ratified a version of the nation's energy transition law on Tuesday that reinstates main nuclear reduction targets diluted in March by the upper house Senate controlled by the Opposition.
read more... 27/05/2015
EU unveils a breakthrough reform of the carbon market
European Parliament has voted to start fixing the bloc's carbon market from 2019, two years earlier than originally planned, a move hailed by the renewable industry.
read more... 08/05/2015
Daily: European power prices rally after “positive” EU carbon vote
Brent crude futures soared 5 percent on Wednesday, after Saudi Arabia’s oil minister said oil demand was increasing and figures showed Chinese factories were producing more than projected. Brent crude for April delivery boosted $2.97 to settle at $61.63 a barrel. WTI April crude climbed $1.71 to close at $50.99.
read more... 26/02/2015