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Kyoto team develops two-stage process for direct liquefaction of low-rank coal and biomass under mild conditions

2015-05-11 12:55:37| Green Car Congress

Kyoto protests disrupt oil trading

2015-02-22 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Oil trading was interrupted for more than an hour yesterday in the world's second largest energy market when 35 Greenpeace activists invaded the International Petroleum Exchange in London on the day the Kyoto global warming treaty came into effect. The exchange, which trades oil worth up to $1,000bn a year and sets the price for as much as 60% of the world's crude supply, was thrown into chaos just before 2pm as traders and security guards clashed with the activists coming through the only door...

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Peru ratifies Kyoto Protocol extension to 2020

2014-09-26 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

RTCC: Peru and Djibouti have formally agreed to extend the Kyoto Protocol up to 2020. The Kyoto Protocol aims to reduce emissions prior to 2020, when a new UN agreement is set to come into force. But until an amendment is signed off by at least three quarters of the parties, the protocol only applies to the years 2008-12. In the interim, that leaves the world without an international framework binding them to emissions reductions. So far only 17 of the 144 countries needed to bring the amendment...

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