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Interview: Cheap carbon is least of EU's green angst-wind head

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's credibility as a global environmental leader is at risk unless it can mend its policies to meet green goals in reality and not just on paper, the head of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) said.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's credibility as a global environmental leader is at risk unless it can mend its policies to meet green goals in reality and not just on paper, the head of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) said.

Environmental policy-making attention this week has focused on draft EU law to improve the bloc's record on energy savings and on efforts to persuade the European Commission to prop up carbon prices, which have lost most of their value on the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

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