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02 July 2009 |
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 The British government at the end of June put in question the continued development of an electronic identity card scheme in the United Kingdom, by saying it would never be made mandatory, and by scrapping plans to require pilots and airport workers to hold eID cards, writes Stephen Gardner.
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01 July 2009 |
The voluntary carbon offset market is resisting recessionary pressures, as buyers respond to criticisms by becoming more demanding, writes Stephen Gardner.
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18 June 2009 |
The British Conservative party, the main opposition to the governing Labour Party, has written to the main IT vendors involved in developing the UK electronic identity card telling them that the eID scheme will be scrapped, should the Conservatives form the next British government, writes Stephen Gardner.
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16 June 2009 |
UK energy and climate secretary Ed Miliband responded to controversy over the construction of coal-fired units at the Kingsnorth power station by saying that there would be no new coal power generation without technology to capture the carbon dioxide thus emitted. But he didn't tell climate activists and other concerned citizens that they would be paying for it via a scheme cooked up in Brussels, writes Stephen Gardner.
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15 June 2009 |
The European Commission will just before the June 18-19 European Council publish an assessment of the economic stimulus packages tabled by EU member states in the last few months. These were supposed to have been prepared in a coordinated fashion, and to advance broad European goals, writes Stephen Gardner.
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05 June 2009 |
The European Commission is getting ready to report on the first year of operation of its voluntary lobbyists' register, which was launched June 23, 2008. Some 1500 firms and organisations have signed up, against an estimated 2600 lobbying "entities" in Brussels. Looks impressive, and the Commission will no doubt claim it is, writes Stephen Gardner.
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20 May 2009 |
The excitement is building in Brussels. On May 27, in follow up to the G20 Summit, the European Commission will present its solution to the financial supervision failings that allowed the banking crisis, writes Stephen Gardner.
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08 May 2009 |
Business and regulators have responded to calls for a floor price for carbon credits with a fairly resounding "No!" writes Stephen Gardner.
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More bad news on climate change, writes Stephen Gardner. The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published (May 25) the results of a major reassessment of greenhouse gas emissions data, and has found that annual manmade global emissions went up by an alarming 15 percent in the five short years between 2000 and 2005.
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