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Financial crisis tests industry's green priorities [1]

The slowing economy and financial crisis are testing Europe's goal of becoming a world leader in greenhouse gas reduction.

Industry has seized on the slowdown to lobby for delayed or watered down regulations, arguing that directives set out by the European Commission earlier this year would force them to cut jobs or relocate factories abroad.

Publication Date: 
06/10/2008
Joshua Chaffin [2]
Financial Times (London) [3]
Tags:
Carbon Dioxide [4], Climate Change [5], Green House Gases [6], Emissions Trading [7], Parliament [8], Europe [9], European Union (EU) [10]

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