French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for a national โcarbon taxโ on global-warming pollutants and a European levy on imports from countries outside the Kyotoย Protocol.
Sarkozy mentioned no names, but any such levy is bound to be targeted at imports from the United States and Australia, the only advanced economies that remain outside the UN‘s landmark pact on greenhouse-gasย emissions.
The worldโs largest outdoor advertising company warned city councillors of โfar-reaching consequencesโ hours before the landmark vote.
For decades, ExxonMobil argued consumers, not oil giants, should take responsibility for fossil fuel pollution. Itโs now backing Carbon Measuresโ accounting scheme, which moves pollution โliabilitiesโ to buyersโ books.
For some separatists, ignoring Indigenous rights is not only a side effect of an independent Alberta, but an explicit goal.
Democratic innovation as a pathway for revitalising global climate action.
