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Day: February 17, 2014

Business
RET review gets climate denier as head

A formal review of Australia’s 20 per cent Renewable Energy Target (RET) has seen the conservative Liberal-National government choose senior business figure Dick Warburton, who

Business
$7bn budget hit in Lib-Nat carbon price repeal

Australia’s controversial carbon price added more than $4 billion to the federal government Treasury last year. The first annual tally of liabilities under the fixed

Business
Stern: floods, fires show climate change is real

British economist Lord Nicholas Stern has cited recent bushfires in Australia along with current flooding in the United Kingdom to argue climate change is already

Business
German firms warn energy law means higher costs

German companies Merck, Aurubis and Salzgitter have voiced opposition to a planned law requiring higher payments from big users of energy to help fund renewable