29 October 2019: The UK’s three largest power generators: SSE, Drax, and Orsted were joined by a climate change NGO Sandbag in an open letter to the HM Treasury in
31 October 2019: The government of the Canadian province of Alberta unveiled the details of its planned Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction Regulation (TIER). The regulation will put a price
31 October 2019: Last week, in response to the results of the Canadian federal election, New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs announced he would look at options for implementing a carbon price in
23 October 2019: In 2016, only 9% of Canada’s plastic waste was recycled and as much as 75% of total waste ended up in landfills. Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission argues there
22 October 2019: Results from Canada’s federal election secured Prime Minister Justin Trudeau another term in power, although they did cost him a majority government. Overall, however, the vote has
17 October 2019: Negotiations on the post-2020 EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) started in June last year with the publication of European Commission proposals to reform environmental conditionalities attached to
16 October 2019: Canada’s federal election is a week away and the incumbent Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is polling closely to the Conservative leader Andrew Scheer. The latter has
14 October 2019: Cuts to subsidies (known as decree 883) were imposed by Ecuador’s President Moreno without any renewable alternative or any sort of rebate. The cut caused a big
11 October 2019: The German government cabinet has adopted its first Climate Action Law, including a CO2 price for transport and buildings and a slew of incentives and regulatory actions
8 October 2019: Mali’s long-awaited mining reforms passed by ordinance in August include a higher tax on gold mining, with the main purpose of allowing the government to capture a
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