EU CO2 Fix May Avoid Delays as Lawmaker Seeks Faster Vote

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The European Union’s proposal to strengthen the carbon market may avoid delays after a lawmaker said he will seek to bring a parliamentary vote on the measure forward by a month.

“I want to accelerate the plenary vote, possibly to March,” Matthias Groote, a German member of the parliament and chairman of the assembly’s environment committee, said in a telephone interview. “It will depend on how many amendments my colleagues table. I want to keep the number small.”