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Pension fees cap plan unveiled

2013-10-30 01:01:15| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Management fees charged by pension providers could be capped as low as 0.75%, according to proposals being set out by the government.

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The trillion-ton cap: Allocating carbon emissions

2013-10-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the first time sets a cap on the amount of carbon emissions we can allow into the atmosphere before calling a complete and permanent halt -- if, that is, we are serious about keeping global warming below two degrees Celsius. That cap was set last month at a trillion tons of carbon. We are something over half way there, with time fast running out. But where did this figure come from; why has a measure of cumulative...

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Benefit cap 'not achieving aims'

2013-10-23 02:51:45| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The government's benefit cap will struggle to meet its objectives of encouraging people into work and saving taxpayers' money, a report suggests.

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Australia: Axe the tax, keep the cap

2013-10-21 04:36:23| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Age: When Parliament resumes, the first item of business will be abolishing the carbon tax. The Greens have flatly rejected supporting the repeal. This provides a golden opportunity for the newly minted Opposition Leader Bill Shorten to abandon one of the former Labor Government's greatest liabilities and simultaneously to defend its achievements. In short, the ALP should support repeal of the carbon tax in return for retaining a cap on carbon emissions. Opinion polling has consistently shown that...

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