Tim Wilson | The Australian | 4th October, 2010
BEFORE recently appointed Trade Minister, Craig Emerson, calls for a new free-trade era he needs to rebuild support for the idea among his colleagues.
Following meetings with senior US officials recently, Emerson said he was “genuinely encouraged” by the support to conclude global free trade negotiations.
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Tim Worstall | The Adam Smith Institute Blog | 31 August, 2010
We are told, breathlessly and repeatedly, in The Guardian, that Bjorn Lomborg has recanted and is now fully on board with the “OMG we’re all gonna die!” wing of the environmental movement over climate change.
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While governments around the world pour taxpayers’ money into a whole range of supposedly win-win “green investments”, a new paper finds that these waste resources and reduce economic growth without necessarily protecting the environment.
Published today, the study reveals the hidden costs of so-called “green investments”, bringing a key policy of Britain’s coalition government into question. The study, from International Policy Network, a global development think tank based in London, shows that subsidising “green jobs” wastes resources and reduces growth without necessarily protecting the environment.
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Julian Morris
Millions are suffering and thousands have died from flooding in Pakistan and China.
An extraordinary heatwave in Russia sparked fires, causing dreadful pollution and wiping out swaths of the wheat crop.
Are these weather-related disasters caused by global warming? Do they portend worse catastrophes? What can be done? Should Pakistan get more aid?
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Caroline Boin and Alec van Gelder
International climate talks in Bonn last weekend were trying to salvage December’s failed Copenhagen summit.
But some rich countries are imposing their own carbon limits anyway, and threatening to curb imports from poor countries that are not. We believe this will cripple the rich economies and harm the poor countries without doing much about emissions.
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