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Entries Tagged as 'Copenhagen'

About that Copenhagen award

February 5th, 2010 · · 1 Comment · Climate change, Energy, Environment, resources & sustainability, Taxes

Back in December, during the Copenhagen negotiations, a group of environmentalists provided BC Premier Gordon Campbell with an award for climate leadership. Based primarily on the creation of a BC carbon tax two years ago, the Premier has gotten a lot of brownie points from the greens – in spite of the fact that there [...]

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Copenhagen and carbon budgets

December 14th, 2009 · · Comments Off · Climate change, Environment, resources & sustainability

As Copenhagen heads into week two, most of the talk has shifted to targets and timelines, typically something like X% of emissions by 2020 or 2050, relative to 1990 levels. This dating is a legacy of the German delegation in the lead-up to the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, who wanted a base year of 1990 [...]

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