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EU Mulls 30-year Climate Strategy
February 25, 2016
Bloomberg reports that, according to a draft EU document, officials from the bloc are considering the development of a European strategy on countering global warming beginning in 2020 and ending in the middle of the century.
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EU Funds Satellite to Monitor Climate Change
February 25, 2016
Reuters reports that the European Space Agency ("ESA") has launched a satellite to help predict weather phenomena and observe the effects of global warming, as part of a project to which the ESA and EU have committed funding in the amount of approximately $9 billion through the year 2020.
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EU Members Sign up for "Healthy Food" Roadmap
February 25, 2016
Following a conference hosted by the Dutch President of the EU Council, 22 EU member states have signed on to a "Roadmap for Action" through which they will work with companies in the food industry to promote healthy food and recognize that "cooperation at European level is essential to help consumers make healthy choices."
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EU Package Advances Supranational Energy Governance
February 24, 2016
The European Commission has released a proposed "sustainable energy security package" that seeks to advance "Energy Union" in the EU, and fulfill the UN climate deal agreed in December, by centralizing control of the security of energy supplies, monitoring national agreements with countries outside the EU, and pushing the introduction of renewable energy in national systems.
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FRA Calls for "Proactive" Promotion of EU Rights Charter
February 24, 2016
At a seminar organized by the Dutch Presidency of the Council of the EU, the Director of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights ("FRA") Michael O'Flaherty asserted that EU member states are legally obligated to promote on a "proactive" basis the rights of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and should use the Charter as an "ethical compass" as they deal with the migrant crisis.
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