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Report: EU Emissions Trading System is becoming an 'anti-climate policy'
2013-06-25 13:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The European Union's carbon trading scheme has delivered a price of carbon that is so low that it risks becoming an "anti-climate policy", cancelling out hundreds of millions of tonnes of emissions savings from other green schemes. That is the stark warning of a new report launched today by the campaign group Sandbag, which calls on the European Commission to urgently reform the flailing EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) by deleting at least 1.7 billion surplus allowances that have caused the...
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Obamas Unveiling of Climate Plan Must Ditch All of the Above Energy Policy
2013-06-24 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: President Barack Obama tweeted on Saturday that we owe it to our kids to do something about climate change. The tweet and its accompanying video lay the ground for Obamas major and long-awaited speech on climate tomorrow at Georgetown University. In the video, Obama argues that: Theres no single step that can reverse the effects of climate change. But when it comes to the world we leave our children, we owe it to them to do what we can. As the most powerful person in the free world,...
Breathing new life into climate policy: Kemp
2013-06-24 10:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Shale has killed climate policy. Now the International Energy Agency is trying to bring it back to life. Following the shale revolution, policymakers can no longer count on peaking oil and gas supplies and soaring fuel prices to save the world from potentially catastrophic climate change. As the peak-oil panic of 2008 recedes, it has become clear that there are more than enough fossil fuel reserves to cook the planet many times over. "The world is drifting further and further from the track...
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Housing policy 'too short-term'
2013-06-24 02:26:12| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Successive governments have failed to produce a coherent long-term strategy for housing, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says.
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France Threatens to Fine Google Over Privacy Policy
2013-06-21 19:34:11| PC Magazine Security Product Guide
Google's updated privacy policy is now more than a year old, but regulators in the EU are still pushing for the search giant for a revamp.
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