Government Wants Duties on Processed Fish Imports to be Increased

“For example, canned sardines and tuna,” said Arryanto Sagala, Climate Policy and Industrial Quality director at the Industry Ministry in Jakarta yesterday. Previously, the import duty was reduced to 5 percent, according to Finance Ministry Regulation ...
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Price carbon and spread the load, says climate chief

Yvo de Boer, KPMG's special global adviser on climate change, also questioned the Opposition Leader's vow to repeal the tax if he wins the next election. He said businesses across the world are demanding a bipartisan approach to climate policy. ...
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Foresters eye share of EU farm money

Indeed, Summa stressed that if the EU is to achieve its ambitious energy and climate policy targets, both agriculture and forestry will have to play a decisive role. She noted that currently more than half of EU's renewable energy – identified as a key ...
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EPA Under Attack – Climate Matters – State of the Planet

The EPA argued that even if granted this authority, regulating emissions would be politically “unwise” due to possible conflicts with other national and international climate policy efforts. The Court ruled that the Clean Air Act ...
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Garnaut agriculture review doesn't support Coalition climate

The opposition's “direct action” climate change policy, hastily cobbled together over summer in 2009-10 after Tony Abbott seized the Liberal leadership, relies heavily on biosequestration to reach the bipartisan goal of a 5% reduction ...
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Climate Change Mitigation Cost: Researchers Improve Assessment

"We will analyse in detail how a variety of assumptions - e.g. concerning future climate policy and available mitigation options - affect the mitigation scenarios, their feasibility and cost." This Monday, the 21 partners from China, ...
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Towards a Climate Safe Common Future | World Resources Institute

This is true for gender equality, health policies, environmental policies and climate policy. Ideology and values play an important role when we set our goals . But when it comes to deciding on what we should do to reach them, ...
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Artificial markets: miles behind the real deal

The Federal Government and its faithful Opposition are falling over each other to say their own climate policy is market friendly. On Lateline last week, Penny Wong and Greg Hunt each argued theirs was the most faithful “market mechanism” which could ...
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