Rio, China Juggle Whether to Sell, Use Emission Credits - Bloomberg

Rio has decided not to use credits sold abroad for its own targets because that would amount to double counting, Rosa said.

The city is spending about $3 billion on a rapid-transport system, he said. It wants 63 percent of its population to use mass transport by 2016, up from about 18% now, he said...

Decisions needed to find emission cuts will probably test the mayor’s popularity with voters, Rosa said.

The city decided around 2010 under Paes’s administration to narrow some of the city’s streets to install the BRTs, restricting car use, he said. “There was a tough call there. If you are taking the street out and the traffic is congested, that’s not easy.”

Capital News » Airbus backs China’s opposition to EU carbon tax

BEIJING, Jun 13 – Airbus fully supports China’s stance in opposing the European Union’s plan to tax international airlines under its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), one of the company’s executives said on Tuesday.

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Airbus employs around 52,000 people at sixteen sites in four European Union countries: France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain.

Union of Concerned Scientists backtracks on GE donations claim | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The group said in a statement the funds to those thinktanks were awarded under a matching gift programme that allows individual employees at GE to determine where their donations would go. "By contrast, funds from GE and its corporate foundation are directed by company executives," the campaign group said.

"We now conclude that GE has only funded thinktanks that support climate science."

Andrew Williams, a spokesman for GE, described the earlier report as "sloppy".

Flashback: Masters of Hypocrisy: the Union of Concerned Scientists « NoFrakkingConsensus

This, ladies and gentleman, is a textbook case of how cavalier climate activists can be with the truth. The UCS report smears General Electric for committing the unpardonable sin of matching trivial donations made by its employees.

The fact that the UCS itself benefited from this exact same mechanism during those same two years at a ratio of 21 to 1 apparently caused them no concern. No one at the UCS, it seems, worried that the organization might be being a little unfair.

Want to talk about hypocrisy ? The Union of Concerned Scientists are masters of it.