 | TOP STORIES |  | | | Net Short Positioning In Silver | | By Gene Arensberg, 08 Dec 2008, 11:39 AM | | This is a special single graph for Resource Investor subscribers. (There're only a couple sentences of text--nothing's missing.) | | Pay Less, Get Less: An Economic Assessment Of Post-2012 Climate Policy Proposals | | By Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, Alessandra Sgobbi, and Massimo Tavoni, 08 Dec 2008, 11:00 AM | | Policymakers need to agree to the post-Kyoto climate architecture soon to implement it in 2012. Using a set of quantitative indicators, this column assesses a number of proposed international climate policy architectures and evaluates their economic efficiency, environmental effectiveness, distributional implications, and enforceability. Unfortunately, the most effective policies are the most costly and hardest to enforce. | | Coal Prices Seem Set To Remain Under Pressure | | By Stephen Gunnion, 08 Dec 2008, 04:14 PM | | Coal prices are likely to remain under pressure in the year ahead as economic growth slows down around the globe, leading to falling demand for metals and power generation. | | Pay Less, Get Less: An Economic Assessment Of Post-2012 Climate Policy Proposals | | By Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, Alessandra Sgobbi, and Massimo Tavoni, 08 Dec 2008, 11:00 AM | | Policymakers need to agree to the post-Kyoto climate architecture soon to implement it in 2012. Using a set of quantitative indicators, this column assesses a number of proposed international climate policy architectures and evaluates their economic efficiency, environmental effectiveness, distributional implications, and enforceability. Unfortunately, the most effective policies are the most costly and hardest to enforce. | | State "Will Protect Mining Community Rights" | | By Charlotte Mathews, 08 Dec 2008, 04:19 PM | | The government would ensure it secured greater legal rights to intervene to protect communities' rights when the five-year-old mining charter was renegotiated next year with industry and labour, Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said on Friday. | | JCI-R&E Merger Ratio Under Fire | | By Charlotte Mathews, 08 Dec 2008, 04:22 PM | | The merger of JCI and Randgold & Exploration (R&E) was likely to go through on the vote of its majority shareholders, but that did not make it right, a minority shareholder said on Friday. | | Nuclear Power Still Part Of The Mix | | By Siseko Njobeni, 08 Dec 2008, 04:05 PM | | The government has used last week's decision by the Eskom board not to proceed with the bidding process for Sough Africa's (SA's) second nuclear programme to unveil its ambitious plans for nuclear energy. | | |