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An Uphill Battle Against LEED-Based Codes
2013-06-03 23:36:01| ENR.com: Headline News
This year is a crucial one that will emphasize the differences between IgCC and LEED and could give IgCC a boost.
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Auto industry faces uphill challenges
2013-05-30 10:56:16| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
A leading industry analyst has warned that China's automobile sales could slow considerably within the next two years, choked mainly by the inability of roads and highways to cope with the growing volume of traffic, particularly in the major cities.
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Huawei Faces Uphill Battle In Enterprise IT Market
2013-05-27 10:00:00| TechWeb
The Chinese networking vendor faces security concerns, our survey data finds, as well as strategic challenges.
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Fiji's villagers move uphill to escape global warming's rising seas
2013-05-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Fiji's picturesque Natewa Bay must be a hard place to leave, and for none more so than the villagers of Vunidogoloa, who are preparing to abandon their ancestral home in the face of the rising sea. But they have little choice: big waves now overtop a once-protective sea wall, their salt-polluted vegetation is dying. They are to move as a community a mile inland, and uphill, to a new site on the northern island of Vanua Levu. Devout Methodists, they have named Kenani, Fijian for Canaan the promised...
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U.N. faces uphill battle to reduce global airline emissions
2013-05-13 18:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Little progress has been made in a United Nations' effort to craft an agreement to lower greenhouse gas emissions from international air travel, raising doubts that its civil aviation body can deliver a final resolution by a September target date, several government officials said on Monday. Representatives to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said a high-level group of representatives from 17 countries tapped to expedite a global agreement continues to be bogged down by a few...
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