Posts tagged "carbon trading"

Australia Passes Landmark Carbon Price Laws

Australia passed landmark laws last week to impose a price on carbon emissions in one of the biggest economic reforms in a decade and injecting new impetus into December’s global climate talks in South Africa.…
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Rio, Woodside Urge Australia government To Modify Carbon Tax

Two of Australia’s biggest natural resources firms criticized the government’s plan to put a fixed price on carbon emissions, saying that without significant changes, the scheme could be potentially disastrous for Australian businesses. Global miner …
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London Calling picks the links between a UK war criminal, the darkest of knights, and a pesky aluminium oligarch

While the UK’s leading war criminal prances around the globe, delivering back-of-envelope patois urging global peace in the Middle East and the Philippines, he’s been working with a slithery hand-picked advisor on a highly dubious …
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Carbon Trading: how it works and why it fails

Report from Carbon Trade Watch

Carbon trading lies at the centre of global climate policy and is projected to become one of the world’s largest commodities markets, yet it has a disastrous track record since …
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