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Environmental groups pressure U.N. body for carbon aviation deal
2013-03-28 23:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Environmental groups have urged the United States to back a global deal to curb carbon emissions produced by planes, noting that global aviation emits more of the greenhouse gas than all but six of the world's nations. The groups, alarmed at scant progress toward an agreement within a United Nations aviation body, presented a petition with more than 60,000 signatures on Monday to a representative of the U.S. State Department. The petition asked U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to secure agreement...
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