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Day: January 23, 2014

Business
Hockey blames carbon price for inflation rise

Drawing what would seem to be an extremely long bow the Treasurer in Australia’s conservative Liberal-National government, Joe Hockey has blamed a sharp jump in

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China’s global warming plans to cost $373bn

A report by Beijing’s Central University of Finance and Economics says China must increase spending on emission cuts and clean technologies by $373 billion to

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EU sets 40 per cent carbon cut for 2030

The European Union has proposed cutting the region’s greenhouse-gas emissions by 40 per cent in 2030 in an accelerated effort to fight climate change. The

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2013 was hot and 2014 could be hotter

The two top scientific agencies in the United States have released separate reports on last year’s climate, and both confirm the global warming trend is