Climate Policy

Lord Monckton urged Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to dump his "direct action" climate change policy, which includes storing carbon emissions in soil and planting trees instead of a carbon tax. "There is no need to take any action at all," he said. ...
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The EU carbon market in recent weeks has registered some of its lowest prices in two years as the related issues of sovereign debt problems, slow recovery from recession and climate policy uncertainty combine to sap demand for EUA emissions permits ...
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Such are the frazzling politics of climate change. While Australians have seen climate policy dominate national debate for most of the past five years, the Prime Minister insists her main task is to explain her plan. Although the detail of her scheme ...
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While Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chair of the IPCC working group that drafted the report, argues that all perceptions of bias are unfounded, climate policy journalist Mark Lynas says that prominence given to an unlikely prediction from a campaign ... See all stories on this topic »

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THE danger with the Greens-government climate policy package is that it is neither cost-effective nor financially sustainable. The policy has two key climate policy elements. The first is a carbon tax which later becomes an emissions trading scam. ...
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Three months ago, BusinessDay polled the top 50 Australian companies on their view of climate policy. Even though any meaningful policy response would be against the immediate interests of every company, most who responded realised the inevitability of ... See all stories on this topic »

Sydney Morning Herald

One of the nation's biggest coal companies, American Electric Power, announced last week that it was shelving plans to develop "clean coal" technology amid an uncertain climate policy and a still-weak economy. That technology, known as carbon capture ...
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images If Congress had the wherewithal to establish a robust energy and climate change policy, there might have been a transformative bit of construction underway right now, next to the towering Mountaineer coal power plant, ...
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Three months ago, BusinessDay, polled the top 50 Australian companies over their view on climate policy. Stripping out the fence-sitting and the meaningless corporate rhetoric, only three companies were openly hostile to a carbon tax. ...
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