02.01.2014 - Businesses urge Kazakhstan to halt Asia's first carbon trading scheme
While Kazakhstan’s environment minister, Nurlan Kapparov, was promoting his country’s efforts to halt global warming at November’s U.N. climate talks in Warsaw, back home big business was piling pressure on the government to put a key green initiative on hold. On Nov. 20, the Kazakh national business chamber called on the government to suspend its emissions trading system (ETS) - the first in Asia – for the duration of the country’s industrial development programme, which runs through 2014...............................................Full Article: Source
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