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Softer still on climate change effort
Auckland :: New Zealand | over 1 year ago
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The soft start to New Zealand's carbon pricing regime is set to get softer still. The Government yesterday released a review of the emissions trading scheme chaired by David Caygill and its own preliminary response to it. The review had generally
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The question is, what earthly difference can we make?
Melbourne :: Australia | over 1 year ago
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Story continues below China is investing in wind and solar power, but factories such as these in the north-east Heilongjiang province caused a 13 per cent increase in carbon emissions last year. Photo: AP The first part of Fong's question is not as
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UK shipping industry rejects EU's carbon reduction programme
Brussels :: Belgium | almost 2 years ago
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Ron Watts/Corbis The UK's shipping industry has roundly rejected the European Union 's emissions trading scheme , defying calls for shipping to be included in the carbon reduction programme. Mark Brownrigg, the UK Chamber of Shipping 's director
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Climate change update
Shanghai :: China | almost 2 years ago
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The survey shows that while many people feel climate change is an issue we need to deal with, they see other priorities as more important and are very concerned about any policies that impose further costs on them, says the Coalition's Executive
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Carbon tax fact sheet is no more than a pile of the proverbial
Fukushima :: Japan | almost 2 years ago
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Ross Cameron July 20, 2011 Opinion "China believes that the rest of the developed world, having achieved prosperity by a carbon-intensive path, cannot now deny the same aspirations to 1.34 billion Chinese". Photo: Jonathan Watts One of the questions
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Carbon tax is good for regions: Windsor
Sydney :: Australia | almost 2 years ago
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Rural independent MP Tony Windsor says the tax, which has undergone a loud debate for months without the government announcing much detail, will be easy to understand. "I think country people will work it out," Mr Windsor told reporters on Sunday
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China threat to EU airline scheme
Brussels :: Belgium | almost 2 years ago
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China is threatening legal action against the European Union for the emissions trading scheme (ETS) it is planning to introduce to airlines next year. "I believe we have to take legal action," said Wei Zhenzhong, head of the China Air Transport
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Airlines face profit shock due to rising cost of oil
Singapore :: Singapore | almost 2 years ago
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Bisignani also pointed the finger at Japan's earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear scare and the political unrest in the Middle East, which have added to the gloomy outlook. Singapore, Bisignani said: "This year started in a terrible way."...
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India takes unique path to lower carbon emissions
New Delhi :: India | almost 2 years ago
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With four times the population of the United States, an economy growing 8-9 percent a year and surging energy demand, India's race to become an economic power has propelled it to No...India's greenhouse gas emissions will keep rising as it tries to
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PM criticises Labour's tax credit (Newstalk ZB)
Auckland :: New Zealand | almost 2 years ago
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The Prime Minister's poking holes in Labour's plan for a research and development tax credit. Leader Phil Goff says it would be capped at $800 million over five years...Mr Key says Labour's grossly underestimated the cost of having an R and D tax
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