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The chancellor maintains that Germany can still meet its carbon-emissions targets and is using the nuclear-policy reversal to help push through a raft of legislation that would boost Germany's renewable-energy infrastructure as part of the new energy policy later this month.
German Nuclear Exit Hurts Merkel's Green-Energy Goal Vanessa Fuhrmans 2011
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But Mr. Hawker says that Ms. Gillard still has time to rebuild her support before the next election, due in 2013, if she gains approval for a carbon-emissions trading program that wasn't part of her original manifesto.
Australia Leader's Political Fate in Question Enda Curran 2011
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In the U.K., the government last week set a price floor for tradable carbon-emissions credits, a move designed to entice more spending in low-carbon electricity.
M&A Seen Surging Among Green-Technology Firms Katharina Bart 2011
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On Monday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would bar U.S. airlines from complying with a European Union directive that requires all airliners touching down in Europe to purchase carbon-emissions permits.
This Air Is Your Air 2011
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The EPA has refused to budge on controversial carbon-emissions regulations.
Obama's Gas Price Migraine Kimberley A. Strassel 2011
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But Beijing also suspects that developed countries want to use its rise to foist on it greater responsibilities in areas like carbon-emissions reduction and currency policy.
Rising China Bests a Shrinking Japan Chester Dawson 2011
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They include carbon-emissions aims, goals to increase the number of small farmers supplying Unilever, and water-usage objectives.
Rebuilding a Greener Unilever Paul Sonne 2011
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Martin Lidegaard, the country's energy and climate minister, in December threw his weight behind efforts to sustain carbon-emissions prices, a sharp change from his Polish predecessor.
EU Carbon Market May Be Due for Change Alessandro Torello 2012
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The latter, according to the breathless Saunders, "will argue in Copenhagen that carbon-emissions controls are pointless because the CRU scandal has nullified any evidence of human-caused atmospheric temperature increase."
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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The ISA paper lays forth solid scientific, economic, ethical, and theological arguments against mandatory carbon-emissions reductions called for by the ECI to mitigate global warming, identifies unintended consequences that would be of serious harm to the world's poor, and articulates a reasoned approach to environmental stewardship.
Eco-Justice 2009
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