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Beijing emitters ignore carbon scheme, question government authority: media
2014-06-13 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: More than a quarter of all companies covered by Beijing's municipal carbon laws ignored a key reporting deadline, local media reported Friday, with some powerful companies questioning the local government trading body's authority to regulate them. Beijing's carbon trading market, one of six set up in China to rein in rapidly growing greenhouse gas emissions, caps carbon dioxide from nearly 500 local enterprises. Most of them must hand over permits to the government to cover for their emissions,...
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EU throws down gauntlet to big emitters
2014-04-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: European Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard today threw down the gauntlet to major carbon emitters after a UN panel pointed to options to brake surging greenhouse gases in line with global ambitions. The report is clear: there really is no plan B for climate change. There is only plan A: collective action to reduce emissions now, Hedegaard said on her website. And since we need first movers to set a plan into motion, we in Europe will adopt an ambitious 2030 target later this year, Hedegaard...
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World top emitters of greenhouse gases, US and China, to work on climate change
2014-02-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China and the United States, the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases, pledged on Saturday to work together to attenuate the effects of global climate change. "China and the United States will work together... to collaborate through enhanced policy dialogue, including the sharing of information regarding their respective post-2020 plans to limit greenhouse gas emissions," according to a US-China joint statement issued at the end of US Secretary of State John Kerry's whirlwind Beijing visit....
US And China Top Global Warming List, But Not All Emitters Are Equal
2014-01-17 22:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: In a finding that comes as little surprise, the United States and China were found to be among the top seven countries that contributed to global warming in the last century. The study, carried out by scientists at the University of Concordia, also added Russia, Brazil, India, Germany and the United Kingdom to that list. Taken together, these countries were responsible for up to 60 percent of global warming between 1906 and 2005, they report. That accounts for 0.7 degree Celsius of the 0.74 degree...
Cattle top global livestock emitters
2013-12-17 15:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Cattle are the biggest source of greenhouse gases, accounting for more than three-quarters of all emissions from global livestock, a survey shows. The assessment, described as the most detailed of its kind, identified Europe and the Americas as the world's epicentres of beef production. Annually, the world produces 586m tonnes of milk, 124m tonnes of poultry and 59m tonnes of beef. The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The assessment, funded by the...
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