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C-Questor Carbon Markets and Climate Change News Letter: Liberal Democrats to abstain in parliamentary vote on nuclear plants

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Friday, 14 May 2010. Liberal Democrats to abstain in parliamentary vote on nuclear plants. Plans for up to ten new nuclear power stations could be blocked after the appointment of Chris Huhne, a strongly anti-nuclear Liberal Democrat, as Energy Secretary. Under the coalition agreement, Lib Dem MPs would abstain in a parliamentary vote on a national planning statement on new nuclear plants. 8220;And we are committed on the Liberal Democrat side of the coalition that we will not vote against that. In 2006,...

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C-Questor Carbon Markets and Climate Change News Letter: There's no right and wrong to tackling climate change

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Friday, 14 May 2010. There's no right and wrong to tackling climate change. Mike Hulme says we need to stop looking for climate change scapegoats and start engaging in honest discussion. Mike Hulme for ChinaDialogue. Part of the Guardian Environment Network. Thursday 13 May 2010 16.31 BST. Since it first emerged as a prominent public-policy issue in the late 1980s, anthropogenic climate change. Belief in what, exactly? Is it the belief that humans are contributing significantly to climate change? Yes, sc...

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C-Questor Carbon Markets and Climate Change News Letter: 10 questions for Chris Huhne, the new energy and climate change secretary

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Friday, 14 May 2010. 10 questions for Chris Huhne, the new energy and climate change secretary. From reforms to the UK's renewable energy strategy to tackling the nuclear question, the new energy and climate change secretary faces a daunting in-tray• What the coalition means for environmental policies. James Murray for BusinessGreen. Part of the Guardian Environment Network. Thursday 13 May 2010 10.20 BST. Chris Huhne has been appointed energy. Secretary - here are the issues he must face immediately:.

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C-Questor Carbon Markets and Climate Change News Letter: Suspension from Kyoto carbon trading looms for Bulgaria

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Friday, 14 May 2010. Suspension from Kyoto carbon trading looms for Bulgaria. 13 May 2010, 23:46 CET. SOFIA) - Bulgaria will likely be suspended from carbon emissions trading as of June 30 for failing to comply with UN recommendations, Environment Minister Nona Karadzhova said Thursday. The UN Compliance Committee of the Kyoto Protocol has taken a preliminary decision to revoke Bulgaria's accreditation to trade in carbon emissions, which is likely to be definitively confirmed on June 30, the minister said.

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C-Questor Carbon Markets and Climate Change News Letter: Coalition environment ministers: who's who

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Friday, 14 May 2010. Coalition environment ministers: who's who. Profiles of Chris Huhne, Caroline Spelman and Philip Hammond, the ministerial team that will drive UK climate and environment policy. Thursday 13 May 2010 14.59 BST. From left to right: transport secretary, Philip Hammond, energy and climate secretary, Chris Huhne, and environment, food and rural affairs secretary, Caroline Spelman. Illustration: Reuters, Getty, AP. Stations and increase to 40% the renewable energy. With 15 years' experienc...

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C-Questor Carbon Markets and Climate Change News Letter: Futuristic Green Float project will test limits of technology

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Friday, 14 May 2010. Futuristic Green Float project will test limits of technology. Japanese scientists, engineers and financiers have begun work on a project that will make the construction excesses of Dubai look timid: a tower 1km (3,300ft) high and a vertical farm balanced on a floating concrete lilypad. By the year 2025, it is claimed, all the necessary technology should be ready to start building — assuming a suitable patch of calm, equatorial ocean can be identified. Eventually, the idea is to stri...

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C-Questor Carbon Markets and Climate Change News Letter: A Bad Bet on Carbon

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Friday, 14 May 2010. A Bad Bet on Carbon. ON Wednesday, John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman introduced their long-awaited Senate energy bill,. Which includes incentives of $2 billion per year for carbon capture and sequestration, the technology that removes carbon dioxide from the smokestack at power plants and forces it into underground storage. This significant allocation would come on top of the $2.4 billion for carbon capture projects that appeared in last year’s stimulus package. Given that the global e...

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C-Questor Carbon Markets and Climate Change News Letter: Go-ahead for offshore wind farm sites

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Friday, 14 May 2010. Go-ahead for offshore wind farm sites. By Emily Beament, Press Association. Tuesday, 11 May 2010. Expansions to offshore wind farm sites around the English coast which will provide enough power for an extra 1.4 million homes were given the green light today by the Crown Estate. Five wind farm developments, off the coasts of Suffolk, Kent, Cumbria and in Liverpool Bay were given the go-ahead to extend their area, creating an extra 1.7 gigawatts (GW) of power. He said: "It is another p...

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C-Questor Carbon Markets and Climate Change News Letter: Countryside to sprout solar farms as firms cash in on subsidy scheme

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Friday, 14 May 2010. Countryside to sprout solar farms as firms cash in on subsidy scheme. Ben Webster, Environment Editor. Fields in Gloucestershire’s rolling countryside, immortalised by Laurie Lee in Cider With Rosie, may soon be covered by thousands of solar panels. Despite the lack of guaranteed sunshine, the solar farms will make a guaranteed profit because of a generous subsidy funded through increases in household energy bills. He intends to announce within weeks the location of the first 25-acre...