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Ed Davey hits out against coalition climate change sceptics	8.5.2013	Guardian: Science
Energy and climate change secretary will use a major speech at Clarence House to promise stronger action on global warming Ed Davey, the energy and climate change secretary, is to use a major speech at Clarence House on Wednesday afternoon to fight back against the increasingly vocal climate change scepticism of other sections of the coalition. His uncompromising speech, seen by the Guardian, promises stronger action on global warming and follows the admission by his party leader Nick Clegg that green issues are now some of the most serious flashpoints between the coalition partners . The Liberal Democrats have long sought to be seen as strong on the environment, a core issue for the party's voters. But they have suffered setbacks in government as the Treasury has cut renewable energy support and an increasingly vocal number of Tories oppose windfarms , money for low-carbon projects and tougher targets for UK emissions cuts, all of which the Lib Dems support. The extent of some of the ...
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Editorial: A Carbon Trading System Worth Saving	7.5.2013	NY Times: Editorials
Editorial: A Carbon Trading System Worth Saving
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European carbon market in trouble	6.5.2013	Washington Post: World
LONDON — As the centerpiece of Europe’s pledge to lead the global battle against climate change, the region’s market for carbon emissions effectively turned pollution into a commodity that could be traded like gold or oil. But the once-thriving pollution trade here has turned into a carbon bust. ...
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EU energy sector in funding 'crisis'	2.5.2013	BBC: Science
The EU needs a huge investment in infrastructure if it is to deliver green, cheap and secure energy, peers claim.
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China leads in climate change's 'critical decade'	30.4.2013	New Scientist: GM Organisms
China leads in climate change's 'critical decade'
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China-becoming-global-climate-change-leader (Cached)	28.4.2013	Hindustan Times: Top Stories
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China agrees $8bn Airbus plane deal	26.4.2013	BBC: World
China agrees to buy 60 planes from European firm Airbus, in a deal worth $8bn (£5.2bn) at list prices.
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This faith in the markets is misplaced: only governments can save our living planet \| George Monbiot	23.4.2013	Guardian: Comment is Free
The European emissions trading system died last week. Why? Because of the lobbying power of big business In other ages, states sought to seize as much power as they could. Today, the self-hating state renounces its powers. Governments anathematise governance. They declare their role redundant and illegitimate. They launch furious assaults on their own branches, seeking wherever possible to lop them off. This self-mutilation is a response to the fact that power has shifted. States now operate at the behest of others. Deregulation, privatisation, the shrinking of the scope, scale and spending of the state: these are now seen as the only legitimate policies. The corporations and billionaires to whom governments defer will have it no other way. Just as taxation tends to redistribute wealth, regulation tends to redistribute power. A democratic state controls and contains powerful interests on behalf of the powerless. This is why billionaires and corporations hate regulation, and – through ...
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Europe’s Carbon Market Is Sputtering as Prices Dive	22.4.2013	NY Times: Business
Europe’s Carbon Market Is Sputtering as Prices Dive
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Cap and Trade Collapses	20.4.2013	Wall St. Journal: Opinion
Even the European Parliament rejects carbon price-fixing.
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Body blows for global green energy?	18.4.2013	BBC: Science
Coal renaissance stalls low-carbon energy efforts
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EU climate chief vows to save scheme	17.4.2013	Guardian: Environment
Connie Hedegaard's attempts to introduce longer-term reforms will face fierce opposition from a powerful business lobby Europe's climate chief vowed on Wednesday to fight on to save the EU's flagship environmental policy, the emissions trading system (ETS), after a serious blow on Tuesday when MEPs rejected reforms aimed at repairing the ailing system . MEPs voted 334 against to 315 in favour of "backloading" the market – a proposal aimed to reverse the plummeting price of carbon that has resulted from a surplus of permits in the ETS market – leading the price of carbon to fall by almost half to under €3 on Tuesday. Connie Hedegaard, EU commissioner for climate action, said: "We are preparing structural [longer-term reforms]. We will have new meetings for stakeholders, in parallel with an impact assessment. We are preparing an initiative." The proposals include measures to restrict rights to carbon permits under the system, and to allow for reviews of the number of permits companies ...
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IEA: Clean-Energy Progress Has Stalled	17.4.2013	Wall St. Journal: Asia
The world has made little progress in reducing the carbon content of its energy supplies in the past 20 years, despite trillions in investment, the International Energy Agency said.
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Green Column: Europe Faces a Crisis in Energy Costs	17.4.2013	International Herald Tribune: Business
Green Column: Europe Faces a Crisis in Energy Costs
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EU lawmakers veto beefing up cap-and-trade system	16.4.2013	Seattle Times: Business & Technology
European lawmakers dealt a blow to one of Europe's flagship policies on fighting climate change when they voted Tuesday against tightening the bloc's system of making companies pay for pollution.
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Europe Rejects Carbon Plan	16.4.2013	NY Times: Europe
Europe Rejects Carbon Plan
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MEPs reject proposed reform of emissions trading scheme	16.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Green campaigners condemn the defeat as a 'monumental failure' to mend the carbon trading market The EU's flagship scheme for cutting carbon emissions suffered one of the most serious setbacks in its chequered history on Tuesday, when MEPs voted against a proposal to shore up the price of carbon in the emissions trading scheme. The proposed reform – known as "backloading" – aimed to reverse the plummeting price of carbon that has resulted from a surplus of permits in the ETS market. If successful, the reform would have resulted in the postponement of a series of auctions of carbon permits. But MEPs voted 334 against the reform, with 315 in favour, leading green campaigners to condemn the defeat as a "monumental failure" to mend the carbon trading market, which is Europe's flagship climate policy and the biggest in the world. "They have lost all credibility on climate leadership," said Doug Parr, Greenpeace UK's chief scientist. Rob Elsworth, a campaigner at emissions trading ...
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EU Rejects Delay of Carbon Permits	16.4.2013	Wall St. Journal: Europe
The European Parliament rejected a proposal to slow growth in the number of available carbon dioxide emissions permits, striking a blow to efforts to make emitting the greenhouse gas more expensive.
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The crowded chasm: the place of science in the Australian government \| Paul Harris	16.4.2013	Guardian: Science
Policymakers in Australia are developing more sophisticated approaches to science and evidence, says Paul Harris in his contribution to our series on science advice The lead-up to the last federal election was a time of unusually high drama for the Australian government. Just two months ahead of the poll, prime minister Kevin Rudd stood down after losing the support of his party, and was replaced by his deputy Julia Gillard . Bitter debate raged about the science and politics of climate change, with Rudd having retreated from a planned emissions trading scheme. And an ambitious public service reform agenda, driven by Rudd and the secretary of his department, Terry Moran, was parked while the focus shifted to campaigning and voting. In this context, the Australian Academy of Science issued a science policy election statement in August 2010. Among its priorities was an emphasis on the importance of science in government policy. According to the academy: "Relatively few Australian ...
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EU lawmakers set to vote on cap-and-trade system	16.4.2013	Seattle Times: Business & Technology
European lawmakers are set to vote on whether to tighten the bloc's carbon emissions trading system and make pollution more expensive for companies.

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