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Attacking patents is a way to halt progress on climate accord

Economics & Deregulation, Trade & IP Unit and Climate Change | Tim Wilson
China Post 29th August, 2008

A hundred countries are meeting in Accra this week in negotiations for a new climate change agreement after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012....

Tariffs, not patents, hurt low-carbon innovation

Economics & Deregulation, Trade & IP Unit and Climate Change | Tim Wilson
South China Morning Post 29th August, 2008

A hundred countries are meeting in Accra, Ghana, this week in negotiations for a new climate change agreement after the Kyoto Protocol expires in...

Case of the warm and fuzzy

Food & Environment and Climate Change | Jennifer Marohasy
The Australian 23rd August, 2008

Three claims have been repeated so often they are accepted as fact: global temperatures are rising, we have less rainfall and so water is becoming...

Climate mettle about to be tested

Economics & Deregulation, Food & Environment, Energy and Climate Change | Alan Moran
The Australian 1st August, 2008

An emissions trading scheme has not even started but the Government's hostility to carbon emissions is already choking off the supply of...

Tax on energy use is best way to fight pollution

Economics & Deregulation, Food & Environment, Energy and Climate Change | Sinclair Davidson
The Age 1st August, 2008

The emissions trading scheme (ETS) is advertised as being a "market solution to a market problem". This is a clever piece of rhetoric that has long...

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