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POPSCarbon trading junction up ahead The Australian Federal Elections 2007 will bring us to a crossroad. With even the Howard Government committing to a cap and trade approach to a carbon market, aimed to be established by 2012, we now have choice at the election. In this article by Steve Burrell of the SMH surveys the terrain up ahead.
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POPSCalifornia and Victoria agree to combat climate change together It has been a long time since I have taken back my unflattering comments about Arnold Schwarzenegger upon becoming the governor of California. Everything he does about global warming confirms my decision. Because he is a Hollywood star - a major one - with a direct line to the electorate, perhaps he does have the cachet needed to short-circuit traditional politics and it's embedded vested interests - like the fossil-fuel industry. He certainly is running counter to the Bush line on global warming and, as we can see by his latest move, he is recruiting like-minded leaders around the world in his campaign to tackle climate change square-on.
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POPSThis Earth Day in America A Washington Post, ABC News and Stanford University poll reveals: - a third of Americans now say that global warming is the world's single largest environmental problem, double the number of a year ago. - seven in 10 Americans want more federal action on global warming, and half said that believe the government should do much more than it is now. - fifty two percent said the issue is "extremely" or "very" important personally, double the percentage recorded a decade ago. How is this playing out in the lead-up to the presidential elections?
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POPSCabon dollars for the common man Carbon rationing with penalties for private citizens who exceeded quotas might be needed to tackle climate change, according to the former NSW premier, Bob Carr.