China on track to cut energy intensity by 20 pct

As of 2009, the most recent year considered in the report by the non-governmental Climate Policy Initiative, China is on its way to meeting its own ambitious targets for 2010, according to Qi Ye, the group's director at Tsinghua University in Beijing. ...
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Guest Post: Five Years After “An Inconvenient Truth”

A retrospective analysis examines how the film and the former vice president have weathered the climate policy storms in the years since. Five years after its May 28, 2006, theatrical release, An Inconvenient Truth (hereafter AIT) and its “star” still ...
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Greentech Media (blog)

Low-carbon Innovation

Supporting these industries will improve the efficiency, resilience, and diversity of the US economy, even as climate policy debates proceed at their own pace. America is unique among industrialized nations for our disdain for the term “industrial ...
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Center For American Progress

Did Chris Christie just doom US climate policy?

Republican governors and legislators are outright hostile to anything that so much as smells like climate policy. The once-notable exceptions are now either begging for forgiveness — like Tim Pawlenty — or total outcasts, like Arnold Schwarzenegger ...
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Independent body may be a simple solution to hard issue

ASSUMING he isn't brought back for a third round and this is actually it, Ross Garnaut has finished his marathon four-year stint reviewing climate change policy with a forceful mix of arguments: some old, some new, some borrowed and adapted. ...
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Bashing Blanchett is easier than facing facts

NOT for the first time, Australia's debate on climate policy has taken on a quality that suggests many of the participants are unaware that they share a planet with the rest of humanity. This week the International Energy Agency estimated that 30.6 ...
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Sydney Morning Herald

The pro-carbon tax bandwagon grows

We all know the utterly disgraceful game that you and she and the rest of your colleagues are playing - lying about "carbon pollution," to create the impression that your climate policy is designed to stop the emission of dirty bits of grit. ...
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Climate evidence is in, it is time to act as one

Alongside the central discussion of climate policy, this book is a guide to another struggle that is deeply colouring the climate change debate—the struggle between special interests and the national interest. This conflict is not new. ...
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ABC Online

Climate Policy Focused on Effective Green and Low-Carbon

Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), a global analysis and advisory organization that supports nations' efforts towards green and low-carbon growth, ...
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Editorial: Tax and the smog of war

Families complaining about a cost of living squeeze are unlikely to be swayed into surrendering yet more of their hard-earned for a tax designed to position Australia in the forefront of climate policy internationally, yet which will achieve ...
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