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UN Climate Change Talks Stalled by Russian Issue

2013-06-08 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

RIA Novosti: One of the three groups at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, is unable to start its work because the sides have failed to agree on an issue about the rules of procedure put forward by Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Its in everybodys interest that the rules of the game are respected, but frankly, the Russians broke the rules first by pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol and by not taking any climate action even though they are a major emitter, Kaisa Kosonen, senior political adviser...

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Environmentalism stalled in Connecticut?

2013-04-28 21:12:51| Waste Management - Topix.net

In a report that normally tries to weigh the good and the bad equally, the Council on Environmental Quality looked at the state's ecology in 2012, and in a March 28 report found it to be in a three-year stall to which funding cuts, climate change and complacency all contributed.

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'Wake-up call' sounded on stalled renewable energy initiatives

2013-04-18 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LA Times: The push to produce more energy from renewable sources has stalled, and "the average unit of energy produced today is basically as dirty as it was 20 years ago,' according to Maria van der Hoeven, executive director of the International Energy Agency, a Paris-based intergovernmental organization that researches the energy sector and holds reserves of oil in case of supply disruptions. Van der Hoeven's statement pointed to the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the world's power plants, the greatest...

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Netflix to dump Silverlight, Microsoft's stalled technology

2013-04-16 20:54:04| InfoWorld: Top News

Netflix on Monday said it would abandon Microsoft's Silverlight media player plug-in for Windows and OS X in-browser video streaming, and replace it with a trio of HTML5 extensions. The move will be a blow to Silverlight, the technology Microsoft once aimed as a replacement for Adobe Flash, but that has languished since Silverlight 5 shipped in December 2011. Because Microsoft has never publicly committed to a Silverlight 6, many believe the platform has met its maker.

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