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Washington state will vote on a carbon tax this fall its complicated
2016-04-27 01:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: As governments worldwide begin imposing fees on pollution to try to protect the climate, a debate over dueling approaches - one that has long been restricted to conferences and academia - is becoming prominent in Washington state. Washington voters will decide in November whether to introduce a carbon tax on fossil fuels and electricity from coal and natural gas, with the goal of slowing global warming while reducing taxes on sales and manufacturing and keeping total tax revenue flat overall....
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U.K. Must Seek 57% Carbon Dioxide Cut by 2030, Lawmakers Say
2016-04-26 23:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The U.K. government should adopt the advice of its climate-change adviser and seek to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 57 percent in the four decades through 2030, a panel of lawmakers said. Ministers should also limit the so-called carbon intensity of Britains power plants to 100 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt-hour of electricity, down from about 450 grams now, the cross-party Energy and Climate Change Committee said in a report published Wednesday. Decarbonizing our power sector is,...
EU carbon market is subsidising Polish coal plants NGO
2016-04-26 12:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Carbon markets are supposed to make polluters pay, encouraging investment in carbon-cutting kit. Yet a provision in the EU`s flagship emissions trading scheme mean it is doing the opposite, Carbon Market Watch warned in a report on Tuesday: subsidising coal. Poland, Romania and Czechia are the biggest beneficiaries of free permits worth an estimated EUR12 billion over 2013-19, analysts found. The handout was supposed to support "modernisation" of the power sector in poorer EU states. In...
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UK envoy: Carbon pricing too sluggish to meet climate goals
2016-04-25 13:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Sir David King favours technology development over emissions trading as a way to shift emerging economies off coal Sir David King is the UK foreign office permanent representative on climate change Carbon pricing is too sluggish a weapon against climate change, top UK envoy Sir David King said on Monday. Speaking at a sustainability event in London, Sir David argued innovation to bring down the cost of clean technology would bring swifter results. I dont think it [carbon pricing]...
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Freightgate Announces Updated Carbon Modeling Wizard To Track Supply Chain Carbon Footprint
2016-04-25 06:26:36| pollutiononline Home Page
Freightgate, the Premier Innovation Leader in cloud computing and mobile applications for Logistics and Global Supply Chain Management, announced today an updated version of its Carbon Modeling Wizard which will help socially responsible companies track their carbon footprint
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