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Climate Commission received well by audience

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The Climate Commission faced an audience of more than 200 at a forum in Tamworth last night.

Business rallies troops for carbon tax fight – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Key independent MP Tony Windsor is scathing of an industry alliance’s plans to campaign against pricing, saying it will not change his mind if a deal is reached.


Business rallies troops for carbon tax fight

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A number of large industry groups are working on a multi-million-dollar advertising campaign against the Government's carbon tax.

California rice project to strengthen carbon credit market? – Western Farm Press

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California rice project to strengthen carbon credit market?
Western Farm Press
Aims to allow rice producers to engage in carbon markets. USDA announced in June it would fund nine projects across the country focused on various aspects of greenhouse gas mitigation practices. The Obama administration hopes the projects will ...


Cap and trade scrapped in UK energy efficiency scheme – Environmental Finance

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Cap and trade scrapped in UK energy efficiency scheme
Environmental Finance
UK businesses will be able to buy an unlimited number of carbon credits at a fixed price under a simplification of the UK's CRC energy efficiency scheme announced today. Other changes will cut the number of fuels covered by the CRC from 29 to four and ...
CRC changes: streamlined or watered down?Business Green (blog)
Reformed CRC to retain carbon tax elementGreenwise Business

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Dour outlook not just a result of carbon plan – Sydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Morning Herald

Dour outlook not just a result of carbon plan
Sydney Morning Herald
Exporters are being hit by the strong Australian dollar, most companies are wary of the effects of the carbon tax on their costs, banks are feeling the pinch from slow or no credit growth and those involved in the retail market are weighed down by ...

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Kenya project: making safer water to sell carbon credits – PhysOrg.com

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Kenya project: making safer water to sell carbon credits
PhysOrg.com
To protect the environment and improve the health of four million people while making a profit is the goal of a Swiss-based company distributing water filters and aiming to sell carbon credits. Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen's family firm has invested $30 ...

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David Boyle and Thet Sambath – Phnom Penh Post

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David Boyle and Thet Sambath
Phnom Penh Post
A forest in Oddar Meanchey province is facing environmental “disaster” after thousands of people destroyed up to 1000 hectares of natural habitat, putting revenues from a carbon credit scheme worth tens of millions of dollars at risk. ...


Carbon tax period as short as possible: PM – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she is determined to introduce an emissions scheme as soon as possible, amid reports the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee has agreed the transition from a tax to an ETS will take three years.


Carbon tax period as short as possible: PM

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Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she is determined to move from a carbon tax to an emissions trading scheme as soon as possible.

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