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Mayor Bloomberg at Hong Kong's C40 Workshop

Mayors Michael Bloomberg of New York City and David Miller of Toronto tell reporters what most impressed them about the Chinese Mayors’ discussion about increasing sustainability in their cities.

New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the new chair of the C40 Climate Leadership Group, applauded Chinese mayors gathered in Hong Kong last week for taking proactive steps towards building low carbon environments in their cities.

City officials and senior representatives from over 30 cities around the world and 120 officials from cities and provinces of mainland China gathered at a C40 workshop in Hong Kong last week to explore the challenges and opportunities of creating low carbon cities that offer a high quality of life.

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Marathon Oil’s CFO sees carbon taxes becoming a reality

Not that a tax will necessarily mitigate the effects of emissions but it can certainly penalize industry for contributing to a high carbon environment. However, if indeed the reality of such a tax is looming, it is still quite far. [...]

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2010 is the Chinese Year of the Tiger (Src: Flick.com/Digitalart)

Associated with passion, power and explosive personality, one can only begin to imagine what the Year of Tiger means for China. [...]

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