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7 September 2010
Singapore, Aug 28 - More companies trading in carbon offsets and those financing emissions reduction projects are setting up shop in Singapore.
Singapore, August 25 - Industry watchers say Asia’s renewable energy market will be worth some US$50-55 billion over the next 5 to 10 years.
Wellington, May 24 - New Zealand’s government will introduce a carbon emissions trading scheme from July 1, even after Australia scrapped its own plan last month, Prime Minister John Key said in an interview on Television New Zealand.
Canberra, May 12 - Kevin Rudd has hotly rejected the notion he squibbed a double dissolution election on emissions trading, arguing he has worked hard on climate change and remains passionate about the issue.
Seoul, May 4 - South Korea, Asia’s fourth-largest economy, says it will finalise plans in September for an emissions trading scheme covering the majority of the nation’s carbon pollution.
Melbourne, May 4 - The Labor government has lost its position as the leader on climate change for the first time, following Kevin Rudd’s decision to dump plans for an emissions trading scheme.
Insight — Guy Pearse is a research fellow at the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland.
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