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EU seeks tighter CO2 grip on farms, forests

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Publication Date: 
February 24, 2012
Author: 
Francesco Guarascio and Barbara Lewis
News Source: 
Reuters

The EU forestry and farming sectors will have to monitor and report from 2013 any changes to land use that could affect greenhouse gas emissions as part of the bloc's measures to curb climate change, under a draft law seen by Reuters.
 
The proposal, expected to be published officially next week, does not go as far as setting firm targets for limiting land-use change.
 
Environmentalists said, however, it would be a step in the right direction, especially due to the fact it did not rely on the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to tackle greenhouse gases generated by land-use change.

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