Emissions trading

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• Europe needs to fix or ditch its emissions trading scheme

  15 Oct 2014: Bryony Worthington: Without a complete overhaul, this flawed policy needs to be scrapped to make way for more effective means of meeting proposed 40% cuts in carbon emissions by 2030

• Nick Xenophon says his form of Direct Action will actually cut emissions

  8 Oct 2014: Independent senator says his amendment proposing penalties for polluters would make the Coalition’s climate plan work

• Australia's emissions pledge is getting easier to achieve, new figures show

  20 Sep 2014: This will dramatically increase pressure on Australia at UN summit in New York next week to ramp up its efforts

• Australia under pressure to announce deeper emissions cuts at UN summit

  16 Sep 2014: UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon calls for ‘bold actions and ‘bold commitments’ in lead-up to Paris 2015

• EU polluters to land €5bn windfall under 'carbon leakage' proposal

  15 Sep 2014: European commission report assumes an unrealistically high carbon price, in move expected to cost governments billions

• Carbon emissions from electricity grid rise after carbon price repeal

  4 Sep 2014: Figures show the largest two-month rise in eight years, though several factors as well as repeal may be involved

• 'Direct Action' could meet emissions target if Coalition allows changes

  24 Aug 2014: Research shows amendments from senator Nick Xenophon would meet 2020 emission reduction target of 5%

• Clive Palmer to host ‘world climate change convention’ at his resort

  18 Aug 2014: <strong> Guardian Australia: </strong> Palmer says ‘major international leaders’ will attend the 17 November event, one day after Brisbane’s G20 meeting

• Direct Action climate policy way off target, industry groups tell Tony Abbott

  17 Jul 2014: Prime minister is warned by host of experts that Coalition's policy is not enough to meet 5% emissions reduction target

• Carbon tax repealed: a short timeline of Australia’s long debate about emissions trading

  17 Jul 2014: Fifteen years of discussion papers, taskforces, reports, wrangling, controversy and parliamentary votes

• The carbon tax is dead and there is nothing credible to take its place

  17 Jul 2014: Guardian Australia: Almost a decade of bruising debate has led to the absence of any serious policy alternative and paralysis over the way forward

• Clive Palmer's changes may doom proposed emissions trading scheme

  15 Jul 2014: Fresh amendments, including the addition of India to list of ETS partners, mean proposal has a bleak future

• Don't axe the tax: emissions trading supporters make last-ditch plea

  6 Jul 2014: Repeal could cost $20bn over next four years and 59 economists insist a carbon price is the best way to reduce emissions

• Carbon tax goes ‘lock, stock and barrel’, says Greg Hunt after call to keep ETS

  4 Jul 2014: Environment minister rejects Ross Garnaut’s call to preserve ETS with floating price and allow use of international credits

• Bill Shorten vows to tackle climate change despite 'our failure to prosecute'

  1 Jul 2014: Labor leader speaks of breakdown in consensus, saying Labor underestimated the 'anti-climate change brigade'

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