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Economic health prerequisite for healthy environment: Limits of Cap and trade in Europe
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Friday, July 17, 2009 |
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Many around the world believe the environment can be protected through regulation. Europe has adopted a cap-and-trade regulatory apparatus similar to the one being debated in Washington. Europe's experiment is called the Emissions Trading System (ETS), and it hasn't worked very well, writes Holdger Krahmer in The Washington Times. |
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High Level Regulations Hurt the “Man on the Street”
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Friday, July 03, 2009 |
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Each day the news is full of stories about some legislation that is being pushed through. Some have obvious impacts on our lives. Others are more obscure. The hidden impacts often come from regulations that seldom make the news. Here’s how the regulations work in the real world—with increasing impact. The companies can probably weather this economic storm. But the question is, can the individuals, writes Marita Noon for the Citizens Alliance for Responsible Energy. |
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India won't accept emission cap: Environment minister
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |
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Stressing that there was no way India would take any legally binding emission reduction target, Jairam Ramesh said. Countering the view in the developed countries about India’s contribution to climate change, he said, “India has 16% of the world population and contributes to 4.6% of green house gas emissions, while the US has 5% of population and contributes to more than 20% of the emissions,” reports Economic Times. |
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Ragpickers bear the brunt as world tackles climate change
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 |
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Attempts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) are throwing ragpickers out of jobs, says the leader of an Indian ragpickers' union. They are not reducing the emissions either, she argues. India is among the countries worst affected by climate change, with ragpickers bearing the brunt of the effects, reports The Hindu. |
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'Green' lessons from Europe
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 |
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It is often said American Democratic politicians are more eager than their Republican counterparts to learn from Europe. In the case of global warming policy, such learning would be welcome, because the lessons from Europe are clear: Rhetoric can outpace action, and the action itself can be much more painful than rhetoric suggests co-authors Ian Murray, Gabriel Calzada and Carlo Stagnaro in the Washington Post. |
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Ambitious ‘green jobs’ experiment failed
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Saturday, January 31, 2009 |
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The Gov. of California – Mr Schwarzenegger – and his green supporters boasted that the anti-global-warming regulations would steer the state into a prosperous era of green jobs, renewable energy, and technological leadership. Instead, in anticipation of the new mandates it has led the nation in job losses. The state has the fourth-highest housing foreclosure rate in the nation, has lost more businesses, and is facing a $40 billion deficit. With cap and trade firmly in place, the economic situation is only likely to get worse, writes Stephen Moore in the Wall Street Journal. |
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China's thickening smogs reduces methane emissions
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Friday, August 08, 2008 |
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A new research has suggested that the fallout from Chinese industrial pollution could actually be reducing the country's contribution to climate change from at least one greenhouse gas - methane, reports Times of India. |
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Kangaroo farming would cut greenhouse gases
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
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Farming kangaroos instead of sheep and cattle in Australia could cut by almost a quarter the greenhouse gases produced by grazing livestock, which account for 11 per cent of the nation's annual emissions, said a new study, reports Times of India. |
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IIM-L to awaken firms about need to reduce carbon emission
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 |
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Even though it seems like the world is very worried about the problems of climate change and have started taking lots of actions, still it seems like Indian companies are not aware of checks on carbon emissions, and many other requirements. Thus one of the professors of the IIM-L have decided to set up a carbon trading office in the campus where many companies have actually buy and sell their carbon credits. This initiative he is doing as a project to see why the companies are not aware and are not taking actions for the climate change problem reports ENS for Express India. |
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