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Post COP21: Costa Ricas Innovation Must Become the Global Norm
2016-03-14 08:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The Paris agreement means countries and corporations will be compelled to act much more quickly on making agricultural commodity production more sustainable. Companies must look beyond their supply chains. Farmers need support to overcome barriers such as: struggle with ineffective farming practices, lack of investment and fluctuating commodity prices. Our remaining forests - the lungs of our planet and so vital to stemming climate change -need to be protected. It's time to work together to make...
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Norwegian City Proves COP21 Carbon Reduction Targets Are Achievable With Water Source Heat Pumps
2016-02-22 01:19:44| pollutiononline News Articles
The workshop aims to gather information on the potential of energy sector coupling and to raise and answer questions concerning the current challenges our cities are facing
Whats ahead for carbon markets after COP21?
2016-02-19 00:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ICTSD: The new climate deal includes several provisions relevant to market-based emissions reductions efforts. At a UN conference in Paris, France in December countries agreed to a new framework for international cooperation on climate change. The Paris Agreement ties together nationally determined contributions (NDCs) with international rules and procedures to ensure transparency and promote rising ambition. Paris also provided a future for international market mechanisms as a tool for countries to...
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COP21 and the Yorkshireman
2016-02-17 12:08:08| Oil IT Journal - www.oilit.com
Neil McNaughton contrasts the 'success' of the 21st Conference of the Parties with pontifications captured during the 'sustainability' session of the SPE ATCE. Will carbon capture and storage save the fossil fuels business? Will it be oil, or electricity, that saves the African villagers? Has COP21 reset the 'frack baby frack' zeitgeist?
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Peter Singer on the COP21 Agreement & Ethics of Climate Change
2016-01-12 20:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Good Magazine: Peter Singer is arguably one of the worlds best-known modern philosophers. Singer has been based out of Princeton University since 1999 and has a host of awards and honors to his name. Hes perhaps best known for his seminal 1975 tome Animal Liberation, which all but coined that term (hed used it earlier in 1973) and helped to launch the movement around it. Arguing that there was no real value or significance in the distinction between species and rejecting the need for reciprocal social contracts...
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