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Capturing Carbon: A new front in the fight against climate change: Global warming is one of the biggest issues of our time. To meet the targets set for reducing CO2 emissions, it's widely accepted that new technology will play an important role, sometimes as a "bridging technology", while alternative sustainable energy sources are being developed. One of the most promising technologies is Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). This a means of capturing CO2 from sources such as power plants, compressing the CO2 and storing it away safely in geological formations underground or under the seabed instead of releasing it into the atmosphere.
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Curbing CO2 emissions from road transport: Road transport generates about one fifth of the EU's CO2 emissions, with passenger cars responsible for around 12%. This makes it the second most important source of greenhouse gases. Although there have been significant improvements over recent years in vehicle technology, these have not been enough to neutralise the effect of increases in traffic and car size.
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Reducing climate impacts from international aviation: Europe leads the way: The European Commission is proposing legislation to bring the aviation sector into the European Union's pioneering emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) in order to control the rapid growth in CO2 emissions from air travel. Until now airlines have not been subject to the constraints on energy consumption or greenhouse gas emissions that other businesses have to live with. Emissions from domestic flights are covered by the Kyoto Protocol's emission targets for developed countries, but international aviation - which makes up the vast majority of flights - is not. In addition, jet fuel for international flights has historically been exempted from taxation. Hence the need for policy action.
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Average specific CO2 emissions of new passenger cars per fuel type, with targets (1995-2005): The consistency of the time series 19952004 is not guaranteed
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Decomposition analyses of the main factors influencing the development of EU-15 CO2 emissions from passenger road transport and freight road transport (1990-2005): Located in Data and maps › Maps and graphs
Costs for going beyond 140 g/km: The figure shows costs and the reduction potential of different kinds of measures for the passenger car vehicle fleet (new + existing), ranging from technological fuel efficiency measures for new cars to eco-driving
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Annual European Community greenhouse gas inventory 1990-2005 and inventory report 2007: Located in Publications
Application of the Emissions Trading Directive by EU Member States: Located in Publications
The European Community's initial report under the Kyoto Protocol: Located in Publications
Energy and environment in the European Union - Tracking progress towards integration: Indicator-based report to measure progress of environmental integration within the energy sector.
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