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EU Starts Talks With Switzerland on Linking CO2 Trading Systems
2010-10-27 08:13:12.599 GMT
By Ewa Krukowska
Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union regulator has
started technical talks with Switzerland on linking that
country's emissions-trading system with the 27-nation bloc's
cap-and-trade carbon market, a senior European Commission
official said.
To forward the talks, the European Commission will need to
get a negotiating mandate from the EU member states, Yvon
Slingenberg, emissions-unit head at the commissions' climate
directorate, told a seminar in Brussels today
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