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The surprisingly important climate policy moment thats coming this week
2015-06-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: White House officials confirmed Thursday that in President Obamas meetings this coming week with the president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, theyre going to be talking about climate change. Its unclear whether the result will be any kind of climate-related pact between the U.S. and Brazil on emissions, as we saw between the U.S. and China last year. But theres certainly plenty of speculation about one. Brazil is a nation of more than 200 million people the fifth most populous in the world ...
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Does Australia have workable climate change policy?
2015-06-29 04:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: How we can reduce our greenhouse gas emissions after 2020? Lenore Taylor asks two long-term participants in this debate; Danny Price, managing director of the consultancy firm, Frontier Economics, and Professor Ross Garnaut, who conducted two investigations of climate policy for the previous Labor government.
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Australian climate policy paralysis has end, business roundtable says
2015-06-28 16:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: An unprecedented alliance of business, welfare and environmental groups and trade unions is demanding an end to Australias decade of political paralysis and division on climate policy, insisting the Abbott government make credible emission reduction commitments and the major parties agree on how the pledges should be implemented. In an attempt to reset the bitter political debate on climate policy, the powerful lineup of interest groups has reached a historic agreement on principles that should...
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Affordable Housing Set Aside Policy Set to Undergo Review
2015-06-26 21:12:15| PortlandOnline
The Portland Housing Bureau and the Portland Development Commission will seek input from stakeholders and the public for possible updates to the affordable housing Set Aside policy.
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Alberta to boost carbon price ahead of climate policy revamp
2015-06-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Alberta will increase its carbon price for industrial emitters, the first step in revamping climate regulations to curb greenhouse-gas output from coal plants and oil-sands production. The price will rise to C$20 ($16) a metric ton next year, from C$15 now, and will increase to C$30 in 2017, when the rules will expire, the environment ministry said in a statement Thursday. The government will also begin a climate-policy review led by University of Alberta Professor Andrew Leach to prepare recommendations...
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