Climate change policy

The International Energy Agency (IEA), which has compiled the new data, says ensuring that 2019 marks a definitive peak in global CO2 emissions will be "extremely challenging".

The IEA says the COVID crisis in 2020 triggered the largest annual drop in energy-related carbon dioxide emissions since the Second World War.

 In recent months, the price of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions has increased significantly and is already above the forecast of the Bulgarian Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (EWRC), according to a published report.

They claim it is to reduce carbon emissions and increase slaughter-free products

Future carbon border tax should be introduced for products of oil refineries and the glass, paper and aluminium industry and not only for the power sector and energy-intensive industrial sectors like cement, steel, chemicals, and fertilisers, European lawmakers said.

European Union leaders have agreed to more aggressive cuts in greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade, one year after launching a Green Deal that led the way for other major economies to raise their climate ambitions.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has arrived in Brussels to participate in the European Council meeting, which will take place today and tomorrow.

In the Belgian capital, European leaders will discuss member states' measures for coping with the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Green Deal shows how to transform our way of life and work so that we live more efficiently, said  Chairperson of the Committee on Environment and Water in parliament Ivelina Vasileva at an online conference on "Climate policy and the Green Deal " - challenges and opportunities".

Turkey on Nov. 22 expressed its determination to achieve a "fair position" within the scope of the international regime to combat climate change in an addendum statement to the G20 Leaders' Summit Declaration. 

The special account for renewable energy sources, through which green power producers are paid, is showing a 423-million-euro annual drop in revenues.

The Parliament has adopted amendments to the Climate Change Mitigation Act on second reading, Focus News Agency reported.
The bill aims to enhance cost-effective emission reductions and low-carbon investments.