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16/5/2013
Since the disappointment of Copenhagen in 2009, Australia has witnessed a concerted scare campaign against action on global warming. The scare campaign has been led by senior commentators in (Murdoch owned) News Limited papers, by conservative ...
14/5/2013
A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to attend an event in Ottawa put on by Canada 2020, a newish think tank of sorts that is trying to further debate on the policy changes we need over the next decade. “How to sell carbon pricing to Canadians” ...
7/5/2013
The European Parliament is due to vote for a second time on the proposed 'backloading' reforms to the EU's emissions trading scheme (ETS), according to an MEP on the influential
Environment Committee.
Writing on Twitter this morning, Lib ...
7/5/2013
German Chancellor Angel Merkel raised hopes for Europe's flagging emissions trading scheme (ETS) late last week by calling for action to be taken this year to revive plans to tackle the over-supply of carbon allowances in the market.
The ...
6/5/2013
Governments and members of the European Parliament must decide on a plan to prop up the EU carbon market by July at the latest, a joint statement from nine energy and
environment ministers, said.
The statement, seen by Reuters, is ...
6/5/2013
State of the Union addresses are wearying rituals, in which stitched-together lists of never-gonna-happen goals are woven into idealistic catchphrases, analyzed as rhetoric by an unqualified panel of poetry-critic-for-a-night political reporters, ...
1/5/2013
[Editor's note: With voting day just over two weeks away, we look back on big issues that have driven debate in our province during the last 12 years of BC Liberal governance. What did B.C.'s leaders and opposition parties say and do on these ...
28/4/2013
Federal officials are stepping up efforts to make the case for the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington D.C., but some experts warn that the frequent public visits could be doing more harm than good.
Between federal Cabinet ministers and ...
24/4/2013
Mining shale oil under the Great Barrier Reef is likely to be banned by Australia's federal Labor government as tensions rise over the
environmental impact of the booming oil and gas industry on the coastline beside the reef.
In ...
24/4/2013
SHORTLY after winning re-election in November, President Obama promised assertive leadership on climate change and energy. In his State of the Union address in February, he vowed that if the assembled lawmakers failed to pass broad climate ...
23/4/2013
Environmental activists are turning up the heat on President Obama as he faces what could be the trickiest decision of his second term: whether or not to approve the controversial proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which could reach his desk this ...
23/4/2013
B.C. New Democratic Party leader Adrian Dix's criticism Monday of Kinder Morgan's proposed $5.4-billion oil pipeline marks the latest twist in an
election campaign that, for the first time in B.C.'s modern history, has the oil-and-gas industry ...
22/4/2013
Marina Silva is what the enlightened future was supposed to look like. Smart, determined, effective and focused on indigenous culture, education and
environmental conservation, the former minister and presidential candidate was once a symbol of ...
20/4/2013
MITT ROMNEY’S charge that America had declared “war on coal” may not have won him last year’s presidential
election. Yet this once-mighty industry is struggling, squeezed by the plummeting cost of natural gas and a torrent of tough new ...
18/4/2013
In a case brought by
environment groups, Belize`s Supreme Court has declared offshore oil drilling contracts issued by the Government of Belize in 2004 and 2007 null and void.
The ruling halts the Belizean government`s immediate effort ...
18/4/2013
Forget the carbon price, forget the opposition`s Direct Action climate plan. Australia could probably meet its targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions without either, provided we did one thing. But you won`t hear the politicians talk about ...
12/4/2013
Months of bitter argument culminate next Tuesday in a make-or-break vote on an attempt to prop up the European Union carbon prices, which plunged to record lows earlier this year.
A proposal put forward by the European Commission last ...
10/4/2013
In an industrial warehouse on the outskirts of Stuttgart, the sooty past is shaking hands with Germany's green-energy future. In one corner sits a relic destined for a museum: a cast-iron engine as big as a bus, which was used until the early ...
7/4/2013
Bill Burton spent the greater part of the past two years working to get President Barack Obama re-elected.
Now he's in a different job, calling on the president to reject the Keystone XL pipeline project, which Obama's administration ...
6/4/2013
Nearly a dozen of the state’s top
environmental groups turned out at a legislative hearing Thursday to urge the state to revive its plan to help Maine adapt to a changing climate.
Testifying before the Legislature’s Committee on ...
3/4/2013
San Francisco billionaire Tom Steyer is giving Democrats a taste of the divisive, big-spending primary battles that have caused Republicans so much heartburn over the past four years.
And he says it's for their own good.
The ...
2/4/2013
Canada's Information Commission is to investigate claims that the government is "muzzling" its scientists.
The move is in response to a complaint filed by academics and a campaign group.
BBC News reported last year instances of ...
2/4/2013
By most measures of
environmental policy and progress, Ontario, Canada ranks well. Over the last half-century, Canada’s most populous province required cities and industries to treat every gallon of wastewater, dramatically reduced the level of ...
27/3/2013
You probably didn’t feel the earth move but a seismic shift has taken place in Alberta politics.
The Wildrose Party now acknowledges the matter is settled on the issue of human-induced climate change. That revelation might not rock your ...
25/3/2013
Hurricane Sandy last year pushed the issue of climate change higher on the nation's agenda. President Barack Obama indicated in his inaugural address and his State of the Union address that climate policy would be a priority for his second term. ...