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Ministers concede Sunday trading defeat
2016-03-09 21:54:53| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Plans to overhaul Sunday trading laws in England and Wales are dropped after they were rejected by MPs, including 27 Conservatives.
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United Kingdom: Ministers urge safeguards for Green Bank to retain low-carbon mandate
2016-03-07 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The head of a parliamentary committee is to demand ministers introduce tougher safeguards to ensure the Green Investment Bank continues with its low-carbon mandate following a controversial privatisation. Mary Creagh MP, who chairs the environmental audit committee (EAC), also expressed concern that the bank could in future put more effort into overseas projects than in supporting the domestic sector for which it was set up. The government has said it will retain a special share in the lending...
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First ministers' climate change meeting a dud: Walkom
2016-03-06 00:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: In practical terms, the first ministers meeting on climate change was a dud. Canada is still not on the road to reach the carbon reduction targets called for by last years Paris climate summit. It is not even on the road to meet the far less ambitious targets set out by Canadas former Conservative government. When all of the rhetoric is stripped away, Thursdays Vancouver Declaration, the somewhat grandiose document summing up the one-day session, demonstrates only that any fault lines...
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Weak economy threatens first ministers' climate change summit: Walkom
2016-03-03 11:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tries to kick-start a climate-change deal with the premiers, the economy is doing him no favours. Statistics Canada reports that in inflation-adjusted terms, Canada's gross domestic product rose by just 1.2 per cent last year. It's not expected to do much better this year. Unemployment has shot up in oil-producing provinces like Alberta. Ontario is doing better, but not excessively so. All of this makes dealing with climate change more difficult. Premiers...
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Ban donations from mining companies and stop ministers working for them
2016-03-01 04:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In Australian politics, there is a revolving door that swings round and round, fuelled by money and self-interest. Into it go former politicians and their staffers and out pop even more highly paid mining company executives and fossil fuel lobbyists. The list of former politicians and staffers whove scored cushy positions in the fossil fuel sector is depressingly long Ive listed just some of them that Im aware of below. The revolving door in part explains why there has never been a...
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