Carbon Dioxide

EU lawmakers to vote on reform of ‘polluter pays’

7 May 2013

EU lawmakers will vote again on controversial plans to make polluters pay more for the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, after narrowly rejecting the proposal last month, a top...

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Beijing hopes carbon dioxide tax will help reduce pollution

20 Feb 2013

Beijing will levy a tax on carbon dioxide emissions as part of new fiscal measures aimed at addressing the mainland's worsening pollution problem, a senior official at the Ministry of Finance said...

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Carbon emissions exceed UN target

3 Dec 2012

Levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) are rising annually by around three per cent, placing earth on track for warming that could breach five degrees Celsius by 2100, a new study published on...

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Should some of China's carbon emissions be attributed to Hong Kong?

18 Nov 2012

Should Hong Kong share some responsibility for the mainland's CO2 emissions?

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Rising CO2 levels in atmosphere causes space jam, scientists warn

13 Nov 2012

A build-up of carbon dioxide in the upper levels of the earth's atmosphere risks causing a faster accumulation of man-made space junk, which could cause more collisions, scientists warn.

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Lai See

8 Aug 2012

Give us shelter from reign of departmental nonsense

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Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

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Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

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MISSION with a vision

Pioneering the way towards a more sustainable future, top hotels in the region have been taking the lead, incorporating carbon offsetting initiatives, integrated into meeting and events held on...

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The power of yellow and green

It's not just environmentalists who feel the urgent need to do something about carbon emissions, but also their logistics counterparts.

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Fuel for action

The UN climate talks this month in Durban, South Africa, made just a murmur in Hong Kong news, overshadowed by the doom and gloom of the euro crisis.

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Why carbon auditors make bosses nervous

Auditors measuring the carbon footprint of last year's climate-change summit in Hong Kong ran into three big obstacles: two of the three official hotels and the venue where it was held refused to...

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Learn from Copenhagen talks, official urges world

China's top climate negotiator said the world must learn a lesson from the Copenhagen talks last year to ensure a meaningful deal is produced at the UN climate meeting in Mexico later this year...

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Contest saves more power than last year

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