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Tar sands

Wykes, Sarah
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Heywood, Steven
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Wykes, Sarah
Heywood, Steven
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Urbaniak, Darek
de Clerck, Paul
Keywords
climate ethics
energy
sustainable development
environmental protection
natural resources
development
greenhouse effect
emissions
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Environmental ethics
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Climate Ethics
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/175619
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"If the EU is serious about tackling the interlinked climate and energy challenges faced by European consumers, investors and the private sector - not to mention supporting sustainable development in Africa - it should assume its responsibility as a global standard-setter, sending a clear signal discouraging the deployment of high-carbon technologies like tar sands before they are “locked-in” and start producing for the European market. It can do this, firstly, by not giving political or financial assistance to tar sands development. Secondly, the EU can adopt appropriate import regimes to incentivise cleaner fuel sources, as California has already done through adoption of a lowcarbon fuel standard." (p. 4)
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2010-05
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