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      Tax or trade: every carbon scheme has a cost sting

      Posted by SoxFirst

      Cap-and-trade creates opportunities for cheating. They can lead to unpredictable fluctuations in energy prices and they do nothing to offset high power costs for consumers. Carbon taxes, on the other hand, can be structured to deliver clean-energy incentives. Ultimately, however, the choice boils down to practical and political considerations

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    • Chief carbon officers

      Posted by SoxFirst

      A few years ago, carbon trading was seen as a niche business. Not any more. There is now a growing recognition that it is set to become the world's biggest commodity market. Expect competition from companies who will be looking to create the special position of "Chief Carbon Officer".

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      The Age Blogs: Management Line

      Posted by SoxFirst

      Carbon trading, which allows companies and individuals to offset the greenhouse gases they create, and notions of carbobn neutrality sound good. A few tweaks here and there, and you can offset our monster carbon footprints without changing lifestyles. The problem is that there is no single standard out there to appraise the quality of the claims for carbon neutrality and the quality of the marketed offsets.

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    • Climate change business

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      Business leaders like Rupert Murdoch and Richard Branson have finally twigged that climate change is a market issue because it could hurt the bottom line. But there’s a long way to go and there are plenty of obstacles that will stop business and governments from fighting climate change.

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    • Push for carbon disclosure on emissions

      Posted by SoxFirst

      In what could be a sign of things to come worldwide, green pressure groups in Britain are now pushing for a change in the listing rules which would require companies floating on the London Stock Exchange to disclose their carbon emissions. The demands come in the lead up to the release of a report, written by a former World Bank chief economist and commissioned by the British Government, warning that climate change could tip the world into the worst recession in recent history.

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