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Carbon plans deeply inadequate: climate study warns
2015-05-04 12:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Pledges made by countries to slash carbon emissions are deeply inadequate to take them down to safe levels by 2030 and put the brakes on global warming, a new analysis warned Monday. Based on the stated undertakings of the world's major emitters, global emissions could reach about 57-59 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) by 2030, said the report co-authored by British academic Nicholas Stern, a former World Bank vice-president considered an authority on the economics of climate...
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Japan's Mooted Climate Target "Inadequate," Say Analysts
2015-04-16 14:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Japans potential climate target of 20% below 2013 emission levels by 2030 has been branded inadequate by analysts, who say its in line with dangerous levels of global warming. Reports last week in the Nikkei newspaper and Japan Times suggested the world`s fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases was finalising its proposals with a view to shortly submitting its contribution to a proposed UN climate pact. The commitments under discussion are significantly weaker than Japans previous pledges...
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Judge: Settlement payment to dairy farmers is inadequate
2015-04-09 19:15:50| Food - Topix.net
A judge has rejected a proposed settlement between cooperative Dairy Farmers of America and Northeast dairy farmers over an alleged effort to drive down prices paid to farmers. U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss says the payments to farmers from the $50 million proposal are inadequate if there are no significant changes to how the cooperative does business.
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Lesniak vows to challenge 'grossly inadequate' settlement...
2015-03-02 01:34:14| Chemicals - Topix.net
Reacting to a reported settlement by the Christie Administration with Exxon Mobil that would allow the oil company to pay $250 million for $8.9 billion in environmental damage to sites in Bayonne and Linden, state Sen. Raymond Lesniak vowed today to challenge the settlement "every step of the way until the state gets just compensation for the damage done by the company's Bayway and Bayonne refineries to more than 1,500 acres of wetlands, meadows and waterways destroyed or damaged" "I grew up under that giant Exxon sign in the Bayway section of Elizabeth and feel personally offended at this weak effort by the Christie Administration in securing fair compensation for the extensive contamination admittedly done by Exxon Mobile to our environment," Lesniak said in a statement.
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Judges rule Kansas public school funding inadequate
2015-01-06 18:07:00| American School & University
The 100-page decision by the Shawnee County District Court upheld that courts 2013 ruling, faulting the states legislature for using unrealistic figures in calculating school funding needs and for tying public school financing to unreliable local budget options. Content Classification: Curated read more
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