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Day: October 30, 2013

Business
Environment groups back higher emissions target

UPDATED Thursday,October 31 Three major environmental lobby groups have come out in support of a higher carbon emissions target for Australia. The Australian Conservation Foundation

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Report: Aust emissions reduction target inadequate

Australia’s carbon emissions reduction target of just five per cent is inadequate and not credible according to the federal government’s own independent climate policy adviser.

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Germany’s RWE looks for renewable energy push

Germany’s major power producer RWE recently surprised by revealing it was departing from its traditional business model and would “create value by leading the transition

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Excess food wastage reaches a new high

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has stressed the importance of monitoring food waste, to speed efforts of eliminating hunger on

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US puts strict limits on foreign coal funding

The United States has revealed it will use its leverage within global development banks to limit financing for coal-fired power plants. The move is part of Washington’s

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Barrier Reef board members linked to mining

Two board members of the body that protects the Great Barrier Reef reportedly have substantial mining interests and links to corrupt former New South Wales