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Global gold lust driving rise in mining emissions
2016-07-12 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Lure of mining for precious metals in South America and Europe is creating new carbon emissions not controlled by international agreement Fimiston Open Pit, known as the Super Pit, is Australia's largest open air gold mine The collapse of the Soviet Union left Bulgaria achieving in the 1990s what the rest of the world is working hard to manage in the 2020s, a reduction in its carbon dioxide emissions of more than 45%. But while a lot of inefficient mines and smelting plants have closed,...
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UMTRI: GHG emissions from industry down over past 25 years, transportation emissions up; MD, HD truck share increasing substantially
2016-07-11 20:56:11| Green Car Congress
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Mary Robinson: World's poorest pay the price for our emissions
2016-07-11 00:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Examiner: UN envoy Mary Robinson has called for schoolchildren to be taught more about how their lives directly impact climate change. Mary Robinson talking to Senait Gebresadik, 8, who carried her two-year-old stepsister to a nutrition and health clinic in Tigray, Ethiopia. At the end of a trip to Ethiopia, which has suffered its most severe drought in half a century, the former president of Ireland said youngsters born today will live through a potentially existential crisis. The east African nation...
Is California sticking it to Tesla for selling so many EVs (and selling the emissions credits)?
2016-07-08 19:02:20| Extremetech
California may cap the emissions credits a successful electric vehicle company (read: Tesla) can sell. Tesla (and the automakers buying credits) are ticked.
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How China could peak CO2 emissions by 2022
2016-07-08 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Detailed policy proposals by influential Chinese and US researchers show potential to speed up low carbon shift China could speed up its climate plans to peak carbon dioxide emissions in six years, under proposals presented to policymakers this week. Two Beijing-based government advisory groups -- the National Center for Climate Change and International Cooperation and the Energy Research Institute -- drew up an "accelerated low carbon scenario" with American consultancy Energy Innovations....
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