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OECD: We must eliminate fossil fuel emissions
2013-10-09 23:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ITN: The OECD Secretary General said the world must banish fossil fuel emissions "towards the second half of the century". "That means we need to start now," Angel Gurria added. Mr Gurria said it was an "intergenerational responsibility" that meant a "big, fat price" needed to be put on carbon. He said measures needed to be applied both to the developed and the developing world, adding that the "exemplary" work the UK had done in legislating for emissions targets needed to continue.
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O.E.C.D. Head Calls for Global Effort Against Climate Change
2013-10-09 18:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The head of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development sought to make climate change a higher priority on the global agenda, urging the world on Wednesday to eliminate all emissions from burning fossil fuels sometime in the second half of this century. Ángel Gurría, secretary general of the O.E.C.D., the Paris-based club of 34 industrialized countries, said that he wanted to put climate change back on the front burner after the issue became less of a priority during the financial...
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World must eliminate fossil fuel emissions, OECD chief says
2013-10-09 08:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The world must eliminate emissions from burning fossil fuels in the second half of this century to lower the economic cost of climate change, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said on Wednesday. Leading economist and climate change expert Nicholas Stern has said that investment equivalent to 2 percent of global gross domestic product a year is needed to limit and adapt to climate change. OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria acknowledged that climate change had...
OECD raises UK growth forecast
2013-09-03 12:17:35| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The OECD economic agency sharply increases its growth forecast for the UK economy this year to 1.5% from an earlier estimate of 0.8%.
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Developing countries to vastly outpace OECD in carbon emissions
2013-07-25 14:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions from developing countries will be 127 percent higher than in the world's most developed economies by 2040, according to figures released Thursday by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Under the policies currently in place worldwide, carbon emissions will grow 46 percent by 2040 from a 2010 baseline, the EIA projected in its biennial International Energy Outlook. Energy-related emissions will total around 45.5 billion tonnes in 2040, up...
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