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Spring Associates ensures successful launch of Access to Medicine Index 2010
Spring Associates has provided management support to the Access to Medicine Foundation since early 2009 and would like to congratulate the organization with the successful launch of the Access to Medicine Index 2010.
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EU carbon tax on new Commission’s agenda early next year
The new European Commission will start work at the beginning of next year on a revision of EU energy taxation, designed to introduce CO2 as a fiscal element, a high-ranking EU official said today (4 November). […]The revised directive will seek to bring current energy taxation in line with the EU’s climate objectives by obliging member states to levy a CO2 tax on heating and motor fuels that do not feature in carbon trading, a draft shows (EurActiv 29/09/09). In addition, it seeks to iron out any overlaps with the EU’s emissions trading scheme (EU ETS; see EurActiv LinksDossier) to avoid double-charging industries.
Watchdog forecasts gas glut
The world faces a natural gas glut that will cool prices, says the International Energy Agency, raising the prospect that Russia’s grip over Europe’s energy security will loosen. […] In the report, the IEA expects overcapacity of gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas terminals to reach at least 250bn cubic metres by 2015, more than four times the spare capacity in 2007. For the US, the gas glut will force companies to scrap plans for new LNG import terminals and mean that much of its existing capacity will be underused.