Climate Policy

Meanwhile, in the US, climate policy remains mired in partisan squabbles. A federal cap-and-trade plan is a non-starter in ideologically polarized Washington DC, where any meaningful action on the issue during President Obama's first term in office ...
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By Pete Harrison BRUSSELS (Reuters) - US airlines will step up their campaign against European Union climate policy next week, with a legal challenge at Europe's highest court to their inclusion in the EU carbon market. The EU aims to lead the world in ...
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The government's climate policy adviser has recommended A$26 per tonne of carbon emission. The mining industry has called for a price of A$10, to be phased in. Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who leads a one-seat majority Labor government, ...
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The suit threatens the most aggressive climate change policy in the nation, California's 2006 omnibus law which covers vehicle pollution, generation of clean energy such as solar and wind, and even building policy as well as a carbon market, ...
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Risks from more extreme weather, continued delay in climate policy by governments and uncertainty over the shape of a new global climate pact were major concerns, while renewable energy, agriculture and infrastructure could be opportunities. ...
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Carol Browner, White House coordinator of energy and climate policy, "will stay on as long as necessary to ensure an orderly transition," a senior ...
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... weekend about "leveraging value chains," jargon more applicable to companies and their supply chains than climate policy wonks and climate negotiators. ...
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Yet recent climate policy debates have largely centered on the trade-offs between environmental certainty (eg, hard emissions caps) and economic certainty ...
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Business has a key role to play in the race for green job creation and green growth that is now central to climate policy and it is important that companies ...
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Enthusiasm for climate and energy policy is fading and elected officials are promising massive spending cuts. What does this mean for building energy policy ...
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