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Climate change policy is just good economics
2013-09-25 18:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: For the majority of the new century, Americans have largely stopped caring about the environment. In that time, America has suffered 9/11, two of the nation's four longest wars, the deepest depression in 80 years, increased inequality, and incompetent or fractured leadership. There's been a lot on the public mind. Our political and economic instability distracted the American public from pending global climate change. Policymakers saw economic and environmental stability as mutually exclusive--you...
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Foes of Obama climate policy prepare battle over cost of carbon
2013-08-21 00:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Three months ago, the Obama administration made a little-noticed but potentially pivotal move in the stepped-up fight against climate change: it boosted the U.S. government's official estimate of the future economic damage caused by carbon pollution. After its first review, a panel of technical experts from 11 government agencies raised the so-called "social cost of carbon," known as SCC. The measure is used by many arms of the U.S. government to determine the financial benefits of new regulations...
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Australia: The Coalitions climate change policy: it's the public, not polluters, who pay
2013-08-20 03:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: You don't have to be a policy expert to realise that if the Coalition is serious about climate change, it will have to take its Direct Action Plan back to the drawing board. Having spent time analysing the parties' climate change policies for the University of Melbourne's Election Watch, I'm disappointed that yet another speech by Greg Hunt, the shadow minister for climate action, failed to answer key questions about the Coalition's climate policy. As it stands, the Direct Action Plan falls short...
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Climate policy is dominating Australian election
2013-07-16 23:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The land down under has its political priorities the right way up. While Barack Obama and Mitt Romney avoided discussing climate change during the 2012 U.S. presidential race, a federal election campaign in Australia is being dominated by debate over climate policy. From The Australian newspaper: The 2013 election now may come down to policy differences rather than popularity, or the lack of it. And it seems two of the three issues that have dominated Australian politics for 15 years will once...
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Can Obama's Climate Change Policy Reduce Carbon Emissions?
2013-07-02 15:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Energy Collective: President Obama recently presented the latest version of his Climate Policy. In addition to expanding on the scope of previous plans that would increase clean energy supplies, energy efficiency, and reduce high global warming potential gases, the President now recommends better preparing the country for future climate impacts, and has directed the EPA to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants. While the current plan covers a very broad range of climate related strategies, the question...
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