Environment in the European Union | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-15

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commissioner_for_the_Environment


00:00:48 1 Current Commissioner
00:01:19 2 Former Commissioners
00:01:28 2.1 Stavros Dimas
00:03:36 2.2 Carlo Ripa di Meana
00:04:33 2.3 List of Commissioners
00:04:42 3 See also
00:05:34 4 External links



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The Commissioner for the Environment is the member of the European Commission responsible for EU environmental policy. The current Commissioner is Karmenu Vella.
The European Union has made a number of environmental moves, partially in regard to climate change. Most notably it signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1998, set up its Emission Trading Scheme in 2005 and is currently agreeing to unilaterally cut its emissions by 20% by 2020. (See: Energy policy of the European Union)
Other policies include Natura 2000, a widespread and successful network of nature conservation sites, the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH) directive requiring safety testing on widely used chemicals, and the Water Framework Directive ensuring water quality reaches higher standards.