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• Countdown to Copenhagen: Donald N. Zillman

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 745
  By Kirsty McHugh, OUP UK In today’s Countdown to Copenhagen post, Donald N. Zillman looks back at predictions he and his fellow authors of Beyond the Carbon Economy: Energy Law in Transition made two years ago, and discusses what today’s position is in light of next week’s COP15 conference. Professor ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• London Expands Scheme to Cut Carbon From Public Buildings

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 452
  Hospitals, colleges and councils will be helped to cut energy use and save millions off their fuel bills under a major expansion of a climate change program announced today by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. Just days before the start of the Copenhagen climate change summit, the Mayor visited a London fire station ...
  12 hours ago

• Senate votes down Australian cap-and-trade bill (discredited theory of climate change)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Senate votes down Australian cap-and-trade billClimate bill defeated in 41-33 vote, as government insists it will put the bill before the Senate for a third time on Friday James Murray, BusinessGreen, 02 Dec 2009 Australias plans for transitioning to a low carbon economy were thrown into turmoil today when the ...
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• China can achieve climate target if its implements major societal reforms

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  London, December 2 (ANI): Environment experts have suggested that if China is to achieve its climate target of cutting carbon emissions per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) by 40-45 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, it should implement “substantial societal reforms”.“If the target is met, it would have ...
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• China keen on low-carbon economy

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 523
  | Sourced From News.xinhuanet.com | NANCHANG, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) — Beijing’s iconic Olympic venue –Bird’s Nest — might have been a little bit different from it is now if it were built today. “I would choose to use solar film to power air-conditioners in the Bird’s Nest instead of the current ...
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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• Is Growth with Equity getting old?

  
  From Poverty to Power by Duncan Green — Authority: 524
  Growth with Equity has been one of the development industry’s overarching economic narratives for over a decade (Oxfam published ‘ Economic Growth with Equity: Lessons from East Asia ’ in 1998). OK, it’s better than just ‘Growth’, and where it’s been achieved, it has an unrivalled impact on poverty, ...
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• Carbon credits could become hedge assets

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 523
  | Sourced From En.cop15.dk | While in the past carbon credit prices have been highly volatile, in a larger post-Copenhagen market the credits may be seen by investors as solid ground. During the next decade or two, the global market for carbon credits is likely to grow to three trillion US dollars, or twice the ...
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Climategate: the Whitewash Begins

  
  MATADOR NINETY-FOUR — Authority: 126
    Powered by Max Banner Ads   It seems the AGW establishment has launched an urgent damage limitation exercise in order to whitewash the Climategate scandal in time for Copenhagen.Related posts: Climategate Exposes the Alarmist Machine Forecast: A cooling trend on climate change Dutch Environmental ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• The Australian National Carbon Offset Standard

  
  Carbon Footprints — Authority: 93
  While much of the public debate in Australia has been over the Government’s proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, quietly, in the background, the federal department of Climate Change has been plugging away on the National Carbon Offset Standard , known in the biz as the NCOS. The NCOS supplements the ...
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• Report: UK skills inadequate for low-carbon economy

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 523
  | Sourced From Businessgreen.com | The UK does not have the necessary skills to transition to a low-carbon economy without the help of foreign companies, according to a major new report from the Aldersgate Group to be released later today at an event in Westminster. The green business think-tank will warn that ...
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• Comfortable conservation and global warming

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  -- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- Energy efficiency will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening growing demand for fossil fuels. Energy efficiency will not remove the need to invest ...
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• Energy bill in Queen’s speech latest step to low-carbon economy in Britain

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 523
  | Sourced From Guardian.co.uk | The latest energy bill is designed to help the UK move towards a low-carbon economy. It includes a £9.5bn levy on electricity suppliers to fund four demonstration carbon capture and storage (CCS) coal power plants. The “CCS Incentive”, as the levy is known, was announced last ...
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• IBM To Invest In Chinas New Energy Industry

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 475
  Global IT giant IBM has turned its eyes to Chinas new-energy industry.IBM has signed a range of cooperation agreements with Chinas ENN Group. Under the agreement the two companies will set up a new-energy joint venture, which IBM calls one of its biggest business projects of the decadein China.The cooperation consists ...
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• Easing the transition to a low carbon economy

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 523
  | Sourced From Edie.net | Helping business move to a low carbon economy could be easier after the Government announced plans for a Forum for a Just Transition. Business minister Pat McFadden, today (November 16) announced the creation and first meeting of the forum at the TUC 21st Century Economy Conference. The ...
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• UK needs step change to become premier location for low carbon revolution – report

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 523
  | Sourced From Worksmanagement.co.uk | The UK needs to step up its efforts to become a premier location for low carbon industries if it is not to risk losing out on a slice of a £4.5 trillion business opportunity. This is the key message from a major report released today (16 November) examining how the UK rates ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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