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Australia: Labor party signals carbon standoff by demanding emissions trading scheme
2013-11-01 07:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Labor will oppose Tony Abbott's long promised repeal of the carbon price if the Coalition fails to implement an internationally linked emissions trading scheme. The opposition has thrown down the political gauntlet on carbon pricing before the resumption of the new parliament this month, laying the groundwork for a partisan stand-off on Abbott's signature election issue. Shadow cabinet resolved on Friday to hold Labor's election posture on carbon pricing. Labor will allow the "tax' to go...
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Carbon Curbs Haven't Spurred Production Exodus, E.U. Study Shows
2013-11-01 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: No businesses in Europe relocated production to regions without greenhouse-gas emission curbs between 2005 and 2012, according to a study for the European Commission on a process known as carbon leakage. We found no evidence for any carbon leakage in the past two trading periods of the European Unions emissions program, said Ecorys, the Rotterdam, Netherlands-based consultancy that wrote the study published on the EUs website. However we think there are indications that this can change in the...
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Australia: Labor won't be 'bullied' on carbon tax, says Opposition Leader Bill Shorten
2013-11-01 02:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News.com.au: FEDERAL Labor is defiantly sticking with its policy to have a price on carbon and gearing up for a new clash with the Coalition over the best way to tackle climate change. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said he would not be "bullied" by the Government and announced shadow Cabinet will keep Kevin Rudd's election policy. But the Government said the September 7 poll had been a referendum on the carbon tax and voters wanted it to be abolished. Labor's decision makes it almost certain the tax...
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Al Gore: world on brink of 'carbon bubble'
2013-11-01 02:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The world is on the brink of the "largest bubble ever" in finance, because of the undisclosed value of high-carbon assets on companies' balance sheets, and investment managers who fail to take account of the risks are failing in their fiduciary duty to shareholders and investors, Al Gore and his investment partner, David Blood, have said. "Stranded carbon assets" such as coal mines, fossil fuel power stations and petrol-fuelled vehicle plants represent at least $7tn on the books of publicly listed...
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Amazon Carbon Offset Project Avoids GHG Emissions While Fostering Responsible Forest Management
2013-11-01 02:15:05| pollutiononline News Articles
The Brazilian Jari-Amapa forest managed byBiofílica Environmental Investmentshas just achieved third-party validation and verification bySCS Global Services(SCS) for its Jari-Amapa forest under the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) program, registered to theVerified Carbon Standard(VCS)
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