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Have Australia's wildfires sent Tony Abbott's climate policies up in smoke?
2013-10-31 12:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Is nature trying to tell Tony Abbott something? No sooner had the new Australian Prime Minister started to dismantle the last government's policies for reducing carbon emissions, than wildfires swept across New South Wales, reigniting as it were the debate over climate change. The fires the worst in the state for two decades followed unprecedentedly high temperatures. Both July and September were the hottest ever recorded in the state, with August only just falling short. And October is...
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Pacific states and BC agree to align GHG and clean energy policies; targeting 10% new vehicle ZEV purchases by 2016
2013-10-30 14:30:11| Green Car Congress
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West Coast states and BC to link climate policies
2013-10-29 00:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The governors of Pacific coastal U.S. states and a Canadian province official on Monday vowed to collectively combat climate change by coordinating polices that place a price on greenhouse gas pollution and mandating the use of cleaner-burning fuels. Governors of California, Oregon, Washington and the environment minister of British Columbia, Mary Polak, gathered in San Francisco to commit to working together to coordinate efforts with the hope of stimulating a clean-energy economy in a region with...
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Coalition of 13 EU Ministers Urges Action on Climate Policies
2013-10-28 06:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Environment and energy ministers from 13 European Union countries joined forces to call on the bloc to agree on ambitious emission-reduction rules for the next decade and strengthen the EUs carbon market. The ministers, who believe tackling climate change will help foster economic growth in the 28-nation bloc, urged the EU at a conference in Brussels today to provide regulatory certainty to investors. The bloc also needs to ensure it puts an ambitious carbon-reduction offer on the table at a world...
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Canada: Wildrose Leader now believes in climate change as party set to shift policies
2013-10-26 02:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: On Friday, Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith also changed her tone on the issue. She told reporters covering her party's annual general meeting: "I accept that climate change is a reality, as do our members. I accept that there's a human influence on it." During the 2012 campaign, the Leader said that the science on climate change isn't settled. Earlier this week, Ms. Smith said the science didn't matter but that market access for Alberta's crude and trade with other concerned countries and jurisdictions...
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