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South Korean Government asks DSME to halt work on LPG carriers
2015-11-13 01:00:00| Ship Technology
The South Korean Ministry of Employment and Labor has reportedly asked the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) Okpo yard to stop construction works on the five liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers.
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Climate pledges 'far from enough' to halt global warming: UN
2015-11-06 10:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The UN warned Friday that nations' carbon-cutting pledges go nowhere near far enough to prevent dangerous global warming, as political efforts gain speed three weeks before a Paris summit tasked with sealing a climate rescue pact. National pledges to curb greenhouse gas emissions -- if respected -- would yield only a third of the cuts needed by 2030 to keep Earth from overheating, according to a UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report. The voluntary targets "are not sufficient to limit global...
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Brazil has battled for decades to halt Amazon's destruction
2015-11-05 11:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: In December this year the U.N. Climate Conference takes place in Paris. Ahead of the summit, we will release a series of stories, titled "Earthprints," that show the ability of humans to change the landscape of the planet. From sprawling urban growth to the construction of new islands, each site has profoundly changed in the last 30 years. Each story has accompanying NASA satellite images that show the scale of the change. In international talks over global climate policy, Brazil's government...
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Thomas Cook shares hit by flight halt
2015-11-05 09:40:30| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Shares in travel firm Thomas Cook fall as investors react to the news that flights between Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt and the UK have been suspended.
In major move, TransCanada asks to halt federal permitting
2015-11-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: In a major new twist, TransCanada Corp. yesterday asked the Obama administration to pause its roughly 7-year-old and highly contentious permitting process for the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The development, which could delay the final decision on the controversial pipeline and put it into the hands of the next president, sent supporters and opponents of the project into a new phase of advocacy, with both sides in high warble over the company's announcement. The company, which wants permission...
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