Robert Stavins News
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Europe may have to change course to save the world’s biggest carbon market after an unprecedented plunge in pollution-permit prices, according to a pioneer of so- called cap-and-trade systems designed to help the environment.
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The U.S. probably won’t take significant steps to curb climate change until an environmental disaster sways public view and prompts political action, Robert Stavins of Harvard University said.
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One of the biggest things President Barack Obama can do to fight global warming is to talk about it.
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It took decades for negotiators to write treaties that curb nuclear warheads and settle trade disputes between nations, and by that measure, efforts to limit global warming may just be getting started.
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Lincoln Paper & Tissue LLC is nestled near a pond amid the forested countryside of Maine. It’s a 128-year-old mill where third-generation workers are as deeply rooted as the evergreens.
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As leaders in Washington obsess about the fiscal cliff, President Barack Obama is putting in place the building blocks for a climate treaty requiring the first fossil- fuel emissions cuts from both the U.S. and China.
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Renewable energy is surpassing fossil fuels for the first time in new power-plant investments, shaking off setbacks from the financial crisis and an impasse at the United Nations global warming talks.
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The boom in American natural-gas production is doing what international negotiations and legislation couldn’t: reducing U.S. carbon-dioxide pollution.
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The U.S., long accused of blocking progress in international climate talks, is winning a two-decade old debate about how to curtail global warming.
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The slide in European Union carbon permits to their lowest level since 2009 is underlining how the region’s sovereign-debt crisis is hurting industrial production.
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