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• Oil tax funds climate projects in Brazil
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Brazil's government is fighting climate change with a special fund flush with cash from a tax on the country's oil industry. The money is to be distrubuted as loans to climate-friendly initiatives. [More »]
• EU airline carbon rules prompt backlash
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After the EU agreed to charge airlines for their greenhouse gas emissions, 26 countries opposed to the scheme have compiled a raft of counter-measures. But Brussels is determined to defy this coalition of the unwilling. [More »]
• Good riddance to rubbish helps save climate
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Stinking garbage heaps emit large amounts of methane gas, a pollutant far more harmful to the climate than CO2. Indonesia has come up with innovative ways of disposing of trash – benefiting both people and the climate. [More »]
• EU aviation carbon charge hit by China ban
Image The EU claims charges on carbon emissions are fair
China announced on Monday it would stop Chinese airlines from complying with an EU scheme to impose charges on carbon emissions. But Beijing says it's willing to negotiate a solution. [More »]
• Airlines could profit from carbon scheme
Image Airlines remain unhappy about the EU's carbon emissions scheme
International airlines have railed against the inclusion of aviation in the European Union's emissions trading scheme, but an industry study says US carriers could make billions off the system thanks to free permits. [More »]
• US, Chinese airline emissions challenge could crash and burn
Image Non-EU carriers will have a tough time getting out of new EU emissions rules
The inclusion of airlines into the EU's Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) hasn't gone down well with carriers based outside the bloc. China and the US oppose the measure, but their legal prospects to stop it look bleak. [More »]
• Top EU court upholds carbon cost on international airlines
Image International carriers will have to pay for polluting rights
The EU's top court has dismissed a challenge to Europe's carbon market brought by US airlines, upholding a law that will force foreign carriers to comply with rules that extend emissions trading to aviation in 2012. [More »]
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