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China pushes forward with carbon tax plans
2013-02-21 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The Chinese government has provided further details of its plans to introduce a carbon tax as part of a package of tax reforms that will also see new levies introduced on scarce resources and environmentally damaging activities. State news agency Xinhua reported this week that a senior official at the Ministry of Finance (MOF) has confirmed the plans are progressing and will see a new carbon tax and environmental protection replace existing pollution discharge fees. Writing on the MOF website...
China and Australia top 'carbon bomb' list
2013-01-22 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: China and Australia top a global list of planned oil, gas and coal projects that will act as "carbon bombs" and push the planet towards catastrophic climate change, a Greenpeace report warned on Tuesday. The Point of No Return study, by consultancy firm Ecofys for Greenpeace, calculated that the 14 giant fossil fuel projects would produce 6.3 gigatonnes of CO2 a year in 2020 as much as the entire United States emits annually. The largest contributors will be China's five north-western provinces,...
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