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Experts unconvinced latest reforms will save the European carbon market

2014-02-01 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Carbon Brief: Policymakers have long asserted that making polluters pay is an effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But with Europe's carbon market floundering, the EU is having to rethink how to go about setting a carbon price. Carbon pricing only works as a climate change policy if the cost of emitting carbon dioxide is high enough to make companies change their behaviour. But the European carbon price has rarely been high enough to make that happen, and has plummeted in recent years. That...

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Obama's NSA Reforms Draw Tepid Response

2014-01-18 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld

In a keenly anticipated speech, President Obama on Friday announced reforms to the NSA's surveillance activities, but his pronouncements failed to please just about everyone. "We heard nothing in his speech or proposal that will repair the damage that has been done to the tech industry and the future of the Internet," said Matt Simons, director of social justice at ThoughtWorks.

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Full text of Obama's intelligence directive regarding NSA reforms

2014-01-17 21:44:14| InfoWorld: Top News

President Barack Obama today issued new directions for the government's intelligence to follow. Among the items released today were an official Presidential Directive and a fact sheet on the details of the new policy. Here are full versions of both.

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Obama outlines NSA reforms: Data hoarding to be subject to presidential review

2014-01-17 19:49:20| Extremetech

After months of escalating disclosures about the nearly incredible extent of the US's electronic spying programs, President Obama has unveiled some hoped-for reforms, but they don't go far enough to make critics here and abroad happy.

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