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Day: March 21, 2014

Business
Carbon laws rejection setting up election trigger

Australia’s conservative Liberal-National government is setting up a potential double dissolution election trigger by again trying to scrap the $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation

Business
Rio Tinto urges coal over climate ‘idealism’

A leading executive with global miner Rio Tinto has dismissed climate change as “ideological discussion” and also called for increased efforts to make carbon capture

Business
Climate change, rising seas cost China $2.9bn

China’s State Oceanic Administration (SOA) has said climate change fuelled storm waves and rising sea levels cost the country $2.9 billion and killed 121 people