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Australia Lets Climate Polluters Evade Safeguard
2015-09-07 02:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The Abbott Government is calling for public comment on the proposed rules for its Emissions Reduction Fund safeguard mechanism issued Wednesday. Critics say minimal compliance obligations will allow emissions to grow 20 percent by 2030. The Emissions Reduction Fund provides incentives to businesses to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. It aims to reduce emissions at lowest cost and contribute towards Australia's 2020 emissions reduction target of five percent below 2000 levels by 2020. The...
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Biggest polluters able increase emissions under Direct Action study
2015-08-02 16:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australias 20 biggest polluters will be able to significantly increase their greenhouse gas output despite being covered by the Abbott governments so-called safeguard mechanism and will wipe out most of the emission reductions the government intends to buy from other sectors, according to new analysis which brands the Coalition policy untenable. The environment minister, Greg Hunt, says the safeguard mechanism to be imposed on 150 big emitters and announced in detail later this month...
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EU set to offer polluters 10 years of free carbon credits - document
2015-06-04 13:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The European Union may have to offer its heaviest polluting industries another ten years of free carbon credits to prevent them from leaving the region to do business elsewhere, EU regulators have suggested in a report seen by Reuters. Ten years ago the EU launched a plan to tackle climate change by asking heavy industry and utilities to pay for every ton of carbon dioxide they produced. After fierce lobbying, it conceded that the heaviest polluters could have free permits. The so-called Emissions...
Californias forests have become climate polluters
2015-04-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: California introduced a world-leading carbon dioxide cap-and-trade program to drive down pollution rates after lawmakers approved an ambitious climate protection law in 2006. It also changed rules affecting utilities, spurring investments in some of the biggest solar power plants the world has yet seen. But an emerging body of research shows it's going to take more than a clean energy blitz to help the state comply with the historic California Global Warming Solutions Act. A Californian task...
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The Cost of Carbon: Economists urge Salem to make polluters pay
2015-04-14 17:14:35| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Oregon House Committee on Energy and Environment holds a hearing April 14 on plans to tax carbon in order to reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions. The economists released a letter of support April 14 in advance of a hearing in Salem on legislation requiring the state Department of Environmental Quality to adopt a carbon cap-and-dividend program.
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