PARIS — Europe’s system for industrial carbon quotas has enriched the continent’s biggest polluters, with ten firms together reaping permits for 2008 alone worth 500 million euros, a new report revealed.
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There is always something poignant about a lone backbencher taking a public stand against their political party, but it assumes an agonising edge when that backbencher is a freshly dumped leader.
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Michael Ignatieff is abandoning Stéphane Dion’s consumer-focused carbon-tax for an industrial cap-and-trade system to tackle climate change.
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A delegation from the city of Greater Geelong plans to head to Canberra on Thursday (19th) to lobby for the protection of it’s manufacturing sector.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) – Democrats on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved their version of a climate change bill as the panel’s Republican lawmakers boycotted the vote.
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* Stern says developing countries’ inaction “not helpful”
* Progress “too slow” on UN climate negotiating track
* Republicans boycott Senate climate hearing again
* Bipartisan Senate group meets privately to craft deal
UPDATE 2-WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) – As a top American diplomat accused developing countries of inaction on global warming, a coalition of senators on Wednesday stepped up efforts to break a political deadlock that has choked U.S. steps on climate change.
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JOURNALIST: The Minister is with me in the studio now, Penny Wong. Penny, first of all I want to deal with the Wellington Weir. Now the decision has been put off, and I guess that you’ve already had a panel of experts looking at what we should do, whether we should make a move or not. The State Government’s already spent a bit of money setting up the infrastructure if we have to move down this path, but today we’re delaying it. Isn’t this really a death of a thousand cuts for those people who are wanting a decision?
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THE Coalition front bench has agreed to negotiate amendments to the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
It will also vote on the scheme this year if forced to, The Australian reports.
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MORE than 2000 workers will be axed and two coalmines prematurely closed if the Federal Government’s emissions trading scheme is passed in its present form, according to Anglo American chief Cynthia Carroll.
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Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) — Businesses are demanding extra compensation under the government’s carbon pollution reduction plans and have rejected the opposition’s alternative “hybrid” model, the Australian newspaper said.
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Paris – Barely 100 days before the world hopes to seal a global climate treaty, the UN’s top climate scientist has given his personal endorsement to hugely ambitious goals for slashing emissions.
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Copenhagen climate council chair Professor Tim Flannery says he’s optimistic a bilateral agreement between China and the US will help drive negotiations on an international agreement on global greenhouse gas (GHG) targets “to fruition”.
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Labour urges boldness on carbon pollution reduction target
It is better to be bold than to be timid when setting New Zealand’s 2020 carbon pollution reduction target, says Labour’s Climate Change Issues spokesperson Charles Chauvel.
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July 26 (Bloomberg) — Australian opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull said the government is guilty of “extraordinary arrogance” by refusing to discuss his party’s concerns over its proposals to cut carbon pollution.
“The better approach is to sit down with the government and negotiate,” Turnbull said today in an interview on ABC’s Insiders program. “Their refusal to do so is extraordinary arrogance and just shows the contempt that they have, and how out of touch they are, with the position of Australian workers.”
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FARMERS could face income hits of up to $11,000 by 2015 as a result of emissions trading, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics says.
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