Video viEUws.eu: Environment Briefing: EU ETS, ILUC, Circular Economy Package and Environment Council

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In this Brussels Briefing on Environment, leading environment journalist Sonja van Renssen provides an overview of the latest EU environment policy developments:

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  The European Environment Agency (EEA i) has issued its annual State of the Environment Report
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  The Circular Economy Package presented by previous EU Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik i has been officially withdrawn. A new package due after the summer, will include binding recycling targets
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  To be presented this spring: a “State of Nature” report
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  EU Environment Council on Friday 6 March
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  MEPs are poised to start negotiations with Member States on the EU ETS Market Stability Reserve (MSR) and new rules on indirect land-use change (ILUC) for biofuels
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  Heating and cooling conference plugs district heating and heat pumps

Featuring statements by EU Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella i, Ivo Belet i MEP (EPP), rapporteur for the greenhouse gas emission trading scheme (EU ETS i) and Nils Torvalds i MEP (ALDE i), the European Parliament’s rapporteur on Indirect Land-Use Change (ILUC).