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• Climate change: Fiddling the books on the ETS

  
  No Right Turn — Authority: 599
  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 ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• CO2 to be future driver of energy prices: Mercuria

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 542
  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
  5 days ago

• Dont let the reckless City trade carbon | Andy Atkins

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 155
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• EU Poised to Give Heavy Industry Free Carbon Permits

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 625
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Why Does Rudd Rush In Where Obama Fears To Tread?

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 560
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Auto industry pushes hard to reduce CO2 emissions and needs supportive, realistic legislative framework to succeed

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 542
  | 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 ...
  1 week ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Burning the Mona Lisa to cook dinner

  
  frogblog — Authority: 569
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Winners and Losers under Cap-and-Trade: Exxon, Exelon, and Duke

  
  WSJ.com: Environmental Capital — Authority: 704
  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.
  1 week ago

• Global Climate Talks Set Carbon Offsets in Motion, Market May Quadruple by 2015

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 625
  The success of the emerging global carbon market rests on the outcome of the Copenhagen Climate Conference in December, according to a report from market researcher Frost & Sullivan. In the meantime, European Union leaders have agreed on a climate deal to present at the global climate talks. But analysts say the ...
  1 week ago

• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• The Verdict’s In: Cap and Trade Will Not Work

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 760
  Over the summer The Washington Post called Europe’s experience with cap and trade as “Exhibit A” of what not to do on climate. Yesterday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Iain Murray brought evidence to the jury – that jury being Senate Environment & Public Works Committee. Murray detailed the ...
  1 week ago

• Curiouser and curiouser carbon

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 542
  | Sourced From Businessspectator.com.au | The closer we get to the end-game on the debate over the proposed emissions trading scheme, the deeper we slip into the theatre of the absurd. The latest, we hear, is that the collapse of Australia’s leading solar energy company, Solar Systems, is to be blamed on the ...
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• Biofuels: flawed carbon accounting system can lead to more deforestation

  
  EnergyRefuge.com Blog — Authority: 118
  Source: Wikipedia We recently blogged about the UN’s recent statement on biofuels . Over the last week, there has been a lot of discussion on the topic, and not exactly an optimistic one, but it’s an important debate to have ahead of the Copehangen climate summit in December. The discussion is based on two ...
  2 weeks ago

• Poll shows 60% of Public Supports Cap-and-Trade

  
  Global Warming is Real — Authority: 514
  As the Senate Energy and Public Works Committee began hearings today on the Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs and American Act , the Senate version of climate and energy legislation, a CNN/Opinion Research poll shows 60% of respondents favor cap-and-trade , the central mechanism limiting greenhouse gas emissions. In ...
  2 weeks ago

• Carbon Market Expo 2009 at the Gold Coast

  
  Carbon Footprints — Authority: 98
  Simon from Carbon Planet at the Carbon Markets Expo Stand at the Gold Coast It’s Carbon Markets Expo time again at the Gold Coast and, as usual, Carbon Planet is there. I’m speaking today on the role of the Voluntary Carbon Markets if you happen to be passing the Gold Coast’s Convention Centre. The Expo is ...
  2 weeks ago

• E.U. Faces Oversupply of Carbon Credits

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 741
  The problem of surplus carbon credits is like "a gorilla" nations are unwilling to deal with, said a European official.
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• 350 action at Green New Deal Conference

  
  GreensBlog — Authority: 417
  On 24 October, people in 181 countries came together for the most widespread day of environmental action in the planets history. At over 5200 events around the world, people gathered to call for strong action and bold leadership on the climate crisis. Attendees of the Green New Deal Conference in Melbourne joined in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Climate change: $225,000 per job?

  
  No Right Turn — Authority: 599
  Carbon News this morning reports that the governments pollution subsidies to the Tiwai Point Aluminium smelter sum to an enormous $209 million - or $225,000 per job (more than an MPs slary) for each of the 930 workers the smelter employs. Its a massive indictment of the subsidy scheme. Or is it? Delving into the ...
  2 weeks ago

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