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Carbon Trading Scheme

A CARBON-trading scheme is likely to push up the costs of fertiliser and farm chemicals but it may also force grain growers to adopt greater efficiencies, according to a Rabobank report.

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Posted on January 16, 2010 · in Australasia

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CANBERRA -(Dow Jones)- A senior Australian government minister said Friday that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd could call an early election if Parliament fails to pass his carbon trading program.

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Posted on November 28, 2009 · in Australasia

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An Australian politician is criticizing what he sees as an assault on democracy and the scientific method and calling for open discussion on climate change

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Posted on October 23, 2009 · in Australasia

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Councils will no longer have to account for the financial implications of the government’s carbon trading scheme in next year’s budgets, civil servants have revealed.

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Posted on October 8, 2009 · in UK

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THE proposed carbon-trading scheme will cause the collapse of the national electricity market, two of South Australia’s major generators have predicted.

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Posted on July 31, 2009 · in Australasia

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Japan has approved its first set of domestic carbon credits, authorising three energy efficiency projects designed to cut annual carbon emissions by an estimated 990 tonnes.

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Posted on June 26, 2009 · in Asia

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The Australian government failed to get its carbon trading scheme through the Senate on Thursday after the opposition Coalition and crossbench senators criticised the scheme’s economic and environmental analysis as being inadequate.

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Posted on June 26, 2009 · in Australasia

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The Rudd government’s scheme for carbon trading scheme has come in for criticism from mining giant Rio Tinto for its prohibitive price tag. Under the scheme the mining company may have to close some of its long-life coalmines around 2020 and cost the company A$2.9 billion over the next decade.

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Posted on April 18, 2009 · in Australasia

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The Hunter Business Chamber says more than $1 billion in investment has been put on hold in the region because of the uncertainty over the emissions trading scheme.
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Posted on December 2, 2008 · in Australasia

LONDON, December 2 (Reuters) – The British government said on Tuesday, it wanted airlines included in a European scheme to cut carbon emissions but business leaders voiced scepticism about the UK’s ability to hit its emission reduction targets.

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Posted on December 2, 2008 · in Top Stories

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SANTOS supports the introduction of the Federal Government’s carbon pollution reduction scheme by 2010. “It’s the right thing to do,” chief executive David Knox said. However, he added: “It has to be done in a framework which is economic for independent companies such as ours.”
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Posted on December 1, 2008 · in Australasia

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FULL exposure to a carbon cost scheme without appropriate transitional measures could jeopardise Australia’s pulp and paper industry, according to a new report released earlier this week.
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Posted on November 17, 2008 · in Australasia

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AAP – Industry and economic leaders are divided on how an emissions trading scheme should operate but have warmed to the idea of an environmental central bank. Leading climate change economist Warwick McKibbin wants a central carbon bank similar to how the financial system has a Reserve Bank of Australia.
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Posted on November 17, 2008 · in Australasia

(AAP) – Western Australia has urged the Commonwealth to delay the introduction of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, saying trade exposed industries need to be better compensated.
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Posted on October 27, 2008 · in Australasia

TOKYO, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Each Japanese utility will consider participating in the planned domestic trial carbon dioxide (CO2) trading scheme, keeping in mind the industry’s voluntary goals under the Kyoto Protocol, the chairman of an industry association said on Friday.

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Posted on October 24, 2008 · in Asia, Top Stories