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Challenges and Opportunities: Aviation Emissions and the European Cap and Trade System
May 21, 2013, Joshua Meltzer
Joshua Meltzer examines the challenges and opportunities of the European Union's cap and trade system, which was extended in January 2012 to include CO2 emissions from all airlines arriving in and departing from EU airspace.
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When you talk to people [of the Pacific nations of Kiribati and Tuvalu] they may say 'this is a beach or this used to be a piece of land that I play on as a kid but now you can see at high tide the water is encroaching and it's effectively under water.' April 26, 2013, Jane McAdam, SBS (Special Broadcasting Service - Australia)
When you talk to people [of the Pacific nations of Kiribati and Tuvalu] they may say 'this is a beach or this used to be a piece of land that I play on as a kid but now you can see at high tide the water is encroaching and it's effectively under water.'
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There are unclear mandates for [aid] agencies to respond to cross-border displacement, since no NGO or agency has responsibility for overseeing people displaced by natural disasters. April 17, 2013, Walter Kälin, IRIN
There are unclear mandates for [aid] agencies to respond to cross-border displacement, since no NGO or agency has responsibility for overseeing people displaced by natural disasters.
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April 2013, Arne Jacobson, Nicholas L. Lam, Tami C. Bond and Nathan Hultman
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Warwick J. McKibbin
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Global Economy and Development, Climate and Energy Economics Project
Elizabeth Ferris
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