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• Climate change: Costing us an arm and a leg

  
  No Right Turn — Authority: 605
  When Dr Christina Hood pointed out that the governments costings on the ETS were wrong, and that the scheme would cost us $105 billion by 2050 , Climate Change Minister Nick Smith was quick to denounce her figures as "wrong". It turns out they werent so wrong after all. From the Finance and Expenditure Committees ...
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• Climate change: Reported back

  
  No Right Turn — Authority: 605
  The Finance and Expenditure Committee has reported back [PDF] on the Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill , but has been unable to reach any agreement on whether the bill should be passed, or even on whether it should be amended. Its hardly surprising, given the manifest flaws in ...
  11 hours ago

• The subsidy myth

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 552
  Business New Zealand has released a paper analysing claims that farms and other businesses will be subsidised by households under the proposed emissions trading scheme. Chief Executive Phil O’Reilly says : The subsidy myth is based on the mistaken belief that ‘households are good and business is bad’ and ...
  12 hours ago

• Snouts in the Carbon Trough

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 544
  | Sourced From Canadafreepress.com | Mr Rudd accuses opponents of his Ration-N-Tax Scheme of “bowing to vested interests”. That is the pot calling the kettle black. The biggest vested interest is the ALP itself, hoping to harvest Green preference votes from their green posturing. Supporting the alarmists are ...
  19 hours ago

• APEC Declaration is another fatal blow for Copenhagen talks

  
  Woolly Days — Authority: 422
  The two-day APEC economic leaders’ summit in Singapore has ended with a leaders’ declaration that promoted free trade but promised little action on climate change three weeks ahead of Copenhagen. Kevin Rudd joined 20 other Pacific Rim leaders in Singapore including US’s Barack Obama and China’s Hu Jintao. ...
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• Ag exempt from Aussie ETS

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 552
  The Melbourne Age reports : Labor has agreed to a keystone Coalition demand that agriculture be excluded permanently from the carbon pollution reduction scheme, raising hopes that Government legislation will pass through Parliament before the Copenhagen climate summit in December. And the Australian reports ...
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• Australian farmers to be exempt from CPRS

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 584
  The Labor Government has conceded one of the non-negotiable points in discussions over the CPRS by exempting farming from the CPRS according to reports in the Murdoch press , The Age and elsewhere. Penny Wong as the special guest on Insiders this morning said it showed that they were serious in wanting to get ...
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  1 day ago

• Climate sceptics versus spin versus science

  
  GreensBlog — Authority: 121
  The media storm over climate sceptics in the Coalition, triggered by Prime Minister Kevin Rudds Lowy Institute speech last Friday and the ABCs Four Corners program on Monday night, is bringing much needed rain for a government whose climate credentials were looking very dry. It has very effectively framed the debate ...
  3 days ago

• REDD Aint the New Black: 10 Concerns About Paying Countries for Forest Protection

  
  the green skeptic — Authority: 118
  Image via Wikipedia I was asked the other day why I think the UNs Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries (REDD) is a flawed, if not bad idea. Here are 10 concerns I have about the REDD scheme: 1.) Ive said it before, but will say it again: Entrusting governments to protect their forests ...
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• Climate change: Fiddling the books on the ETS

  
  No Right Turn — Authority: 605
  Who pays for the ETS? The goal of any such system, for both moral and economic reasons, is to ensure that polluters pay. But according to a new report [PDF] from the Sustainability Council, the governments modified ETS does exactly the opposite, dumping most of the immediate burden onto taxpayers and households ...
  4 days ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  1 week ago

• CO2 to be future driver of energy prices: Mercuria

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 544
  LONDON (Reuters) – Carbon emissions prices could become the driver for other energy commodities within the next 5-10 years, said Jean-Francois Steels, head of Mercuria Energy Group’s newly expanded emissions trading team. Continue Reading on Reuters
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• Dont let the reckless City trade carbon | Andy Atkins

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  As the City recovers from one disaster, the next is on its way – but carbon trading will damage the planet, not just the economy You couldnt make it up: in the middle of the most serious recession for decades, with banks bailed out with billions of pounds of taxpayers money, the denizens of the City have sniffed ...
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• EU Poised to Give Heavy Industry Free Carbon Permits

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 626
  European industries including metals, building materials, textiles and ceramics will benefit from free carbon permits, starting in 2013, under the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme.Operators in those industries complained that not having free pollution permits would make them uncompetitive with their counterparts in ...
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• Why Does Rudd Rush In Where Obama Fears To Tread?

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 550
  By Andrew Bolt Why is (Australian Prime Minister) Kevin Rudd so desperate to have Parliament pass his colossal emissions trading tax before next month’s Copenhagen meeting when even Barack Obama has given up on that mug’s game? International negotiators lost one of the key elements to a successful deal on ...
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• Auto industry pushes hard to reduce CO2 emissions and needs supportive, realistic legislative framework to succeed

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 544
  | Sourced From Environmental-expert.com | The European automobile industry is proceeding at full pace to reduce further CO2 emissions from its vehicles and is confident to meet legislative targets if a supportive policy and legislative framework is secured. The legislative proposal for limiting CO2 emissions from ...
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• If other countries jumped off a cliff, would we do it too? [update 2]

  
  Not PC — Authority: 571
  In the wake of that NZIER report saying, essentially, that NZ’s environmentalists should stop obsessing about feelgood bullshit like “greenhouse gas emissions” and “zero waste” [on which Crampton offers enthusiastic commentary ] Nick Smith admitted in the midst of a TV3 report last night that the ...
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• Burning the Mona Lisa to cook dinner

  
  frogblog — Authority: 578
  An odd Flikr photo from Dead Scene Well known conservative commentator Thomas Friedman contends that destroying our biodiversity to fuel unregulated economic growth is like burning the Mona Lisa to cook dinner. The issue of how we should treat natural capital in our economy resurfaced today. A new NZIER report on ...
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• Winners and Losers under Cap-and-Trade: Exxon, Exelon, and Duke

  
  WSJ.com: Environmental Capital — Authority: 710
  Washington may not mean to pick winners, but climate legislation will definitely create winners and losers among oil and power companies. Heres who they are.
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