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'Carbon tax' is sensible, and perhaps inevitable, advocate says
Oxford :: United Kingdom | about 1 hour ago
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Carbon tax' is sensible, and perhaps inevitable, advocate says Dieter Helm of Oxford says climate change policy should focus not on carbon production, but carbon consumption. With the global climate change summit in Copenhagen just a few weeks away, gloom...
Tags: carbon tax, China, climate change, border tax, carbon consumption, carbon production, Britain, U.S, Europe, Oxford University, United Kingdom, Oxford, Sustainability, Emissions trading, Tax, Carbon finance, Low-carbon economy, Action on climate change, Environment
Climate crunch
São Paulo :: Brazil | about 7 hours ago
Credibility But can the British energy secretary, in Denmark for a frantic round of pre-summit diplomacy, win the argument? Around midnight: Britain's energy and climate change minister, Ed Milliband, talks to civil servants after a day of intergovernmental preparatory...
Tags: Copenhagen, Ed Miliband, climate change, Britain, Indian, developing countries, Brazil, Danish, Europe, China, São Paulo, Carbon dioxide, Jewish atheists, Kyoto Protocol, Denmark, Diplomatic conferences, Carbon finance
FEATURE: English church recreated in Osaka hotel for wedding business
Ōsaka :: Japan | about 8 hours ago
Credibility A pretty, thatched church has been recreated in an Osaka hotel so that Japanese couples can get a sense of English tradition at their wedding ceremonies. Work has just been completed on the construction of the church at Osaka's Monterey Grasmere...
Tags: Osaka, England, replica church, Britain, William Pridie, osaka hotel, Japan, Ōsaka, Blessing ceremony of the Unification Church, Blessing, Consecration, Brockhampton-by-Ross, Roman Catholic Church, Anthropology, Wedding, Religion Belief
Robert Fisk’s World: Scars of the past reveal Britain's doomed empire in Hong Kong
Hong Kong :: China | about 9 hours ago
Credibility Up on Diamond Hill, the British Second World War pillbox looks like one of Enver Hoxha's frontier bunkers, a dome of pre-stressed concrete with rectangular gun slits, the last remnant of Britain's imperial disaster in Hong Kong, a reminder of that most...
Tags: Hong Kong Shanghai, Britain, Chinese, China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Gin Drinkers Line, Repulse Bay, Hong Kong Cemetery, Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, Battle of Hong Kong, Stanley Military Cemetery
The guru with a gift for brainwashing
Oxford :: United Kingdom | about 9 hours ago
Credibility Thierry Tilly looks like a geography teacher or a chartered accountant, or a French version of Bill Gates. He claims, variously, to be a Nato "master-spy", a confidant of presidents and prime ministers, a financial genius, a 21st-century representative...
Tags: Thierry Tilly, M. Marchand, Oxford Garden Company, Oxford Eight, France, Charles-Henri de, French, Guillemette, Knights Templar, Britain, United Kingdom, Oxford, Novellas, Tilly, Marchand
48 hours in Bermuda
Saint George :: Bermuda | about 9 hours ago
Credibility Because you fancy a bit of pre-Christmas shopping in New York with the chance of some mid-Atlantic winter sun thrown in en route. Sir George Somers had the right idea 400 years ago when he crashed his ship, the HMS Sea Venture, on to a nearby reef. Admittedly,...
Tags: Bermudan, Bermuda Maritime Museum, Bermuda Aquarium, Hamilton Parish, St George, New York, hamilton parishes, Britain, Bermuda, Saint George, Places of interest in Bermuda, Outline of Bermuda, Bermuda Triangle, Harrington Sound, Hospitality Recreation
Kiwi Kevin Percy claims Harry Potter castle
Cambridge :: United Kingdom | about 17 hours ago
Credibility Kevin Percy believes there's a good chance he's been cheated of his rightful inheritance, including 700-year-old Alnwick Castle in Northumberland. A Napier antiques dealer has claimed that his family are the rightful heirs to one of Britain's most famous...
Tags: Mr Percy, Kiwi Kevin Percy, Northumberland, Dominion Post, Harry Potter, Britain, Thomas Percy, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, Cambridge, Alnwick, Henry Hotspur Percy, Ralph Percy 12th Duke of Northumberland, Human Interest, Knights of the Garter, Earl of Northumberland, Duke of Northumberland
Sorry: there's no end yet to the storms
London :: United Kingdom | about 18 hours ago
Credibility The only crumb of comfort is that Met Office forecasters see a slight shift in wind direction next week that will bring cooler air streaming in, which means rainfalls will drop off somewhat. But with the ground saturated and so many rivers running high,...
Tags: El Nino, jet stream, Met Office Hadley Centre, Britain, Southwest Scotland, United Kingdom, London, El Niￃﾱo-Southern Oscillation, Weather, Heat wave, Atmospheric dynamics, wind
Skills shortage dents UK's green credentials
London :: United Kingdom | about 19 hours ago
Credibility In a report that will dent Britain's image ahead of the Copenhagen climate conference, the Aldersgate Group says that in spite of the UK's pledge to meet a European Union 2020 target for carbon emissions , the government's skills strategy is inadequate...
Tags: Aldersgate Group Project, Britain, carbon economy, skilled shortage, United Kingdom, London, Peak oil, Zero-carbon economy, Economic growth, Carbon capture and storage, Energy economics, Energy policy, Low-carbon economy, Environment
Brits' turn to scale Olympic heights
Melbourne :: Australia | about 20 hours ago
Credibility Australia's sporting psyche lies a dented, neglected medal that once denoted our nation's Olympic dominance. Or so it would seem rifling through the reactions and rhetoric following the release of the Crawford report, the independent review of Australian...
Tags: Australian Sports Commission, Australian Institute of Sport, London, Britain, Crawford, crawford report, UK Sport, uk sporting, Australia, Melbourne, Sport in Australia, Olympic Games, Sport in the United Kingdom, Sport in London, Summer Olympics, allnews
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