Europe spells out action plan for emissions targets

摘要

Power stations in Europe will have to pay for permits to release carbon dioxide as soon as 2013, the European Commission announced last week But although heavy industries will be included in the European Union's emissions trading scheme (ETS), the commission stopped short of making sectors such as steel and paper pay for their permits. Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso proposed a package of market-based and regulatory-measures to the European Parliament and Council of Ministers in Brussels on 23 Jan- uary. He says that the package will bolster the European Unions leading role in tackling climate change and secure its future energy supply.