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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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Big oil spent $115m obstructing climate laws in 2015, NGO says
2016-04-07 16:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Giants of the oil and gas industry spent millions of dollars last year to manipulate lawmakers and public discourse on climate change, an NGO claimed on Thursday. Exxon, Shell and three trade associations spent US$114 million, according to data compiled by London-based non-profit organisation Influence Map. Lobby group the American Petroleum Institute spent the most at $65 million, followed by Exxon Mobil on $27m and Shell on $22m last year. Two smaller trade groups, the Western States Petroleum...
Uganda: Repressive NGO Act
2016-03-09 07:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Nearly two weeks after controversially winning a fifth term, it has emerged that Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has signed another repressive law which restricts the operations of thousands of NGOs working in the country. The veteran leader signed the NGO Act 2016, which rights groups stress contains "special obligations provisions which are vague and undefined, thus prone to abuse" on January 30, according to a copy of the law seen by IPS. The new legislation states that it is aimed at providing...
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RSPO pledges reform after NGO exposes shoddy palm oil audits
2015-11-20 19:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The general assembly of the worlds biggest sustainable palm oil organization passed a resolution on Thursday acknowledging serious problems with its certification processes and the need to reform them. The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oils corporate and NGO members voted overwhelmingly in favor of adopting the resolution, titled Ensuring Quality, Oversight and Credibility of RSPO Assessments, at the RSPOs annual summit in Kuala Lumpur. The resolution was submitted by London-based nonprofit...
Indonesian NGO takes aim at government for failure to handle haze
2015-11-09 15:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A human rights watchdog in Indonesia intervened in this years haze crisis on Monday to criticize the government for failing to do enough to protect the human rights of citizens affected by toxic pollution. Kontras does not see any coordination among state institutions or even serious steps to provide protection of the fundamental rights of citizens who live around the [affected] forest area and land, Puri Kencana, a senior official at the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence...
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