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Renault promises plan to bring down emissions from diesel vehicles
2016-01-18 11:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: French carmaker Renault on Monday promised to come up with a technical plan over coming weeks to bring down harmful emissions of its vehicles. On Thursday, a government-appointed commission said that Renaults diesel cars failed pollution tests and investigators raided its facilities, raising fears the French carmaker could be caught up in an emissions scandal similar to the one engulfing Volkswagen, which has admitted to using cheating software to fool tests. Frances environment minister,...
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Weak EU tests for diesel emissions are illegal, say lawyers
2016-01-18 07:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Planned new real driving emissions (RDE) test limits that would let cars substantially breach nitrogen oxide (NOx) standards are illegal under EU law, according to new legal analysis seen by the Guardian. The proposed Euro 6 tests would allow diesel cars to emit more than double the blocs 80 mg per km standard for NOx emissions from 2019, and more than 50% above it indefinitely from 2021. The UK supported these exemptions. But they contradict the regulations core objective of progressively...
False emissions reporting undermines China's pollution fight
2016-01-17 19:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Widespread misreporting of harmful gas emissions by Chinese electricity firms is threatening the country's attempts to rein in pollution, with government policies aimed at generating cleaner power struggling to halt the practice. Coal-fired power accounts for three-quarters of China's total generation capacity and is a major source of the toxic smog that shrouded much of the country's north last month, prompting "red alerts" in dozens of cities, including the capital Beijing. But the government...
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Land sparing farming could offset agricultural carbon emissions
2016-01-17 08:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ars Technica: Agriculture is not responsible for the bulk of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions; that honor goes to more fossil-fuel intensive activities like transportation and generating electricity. Even still, greenhouse gas emissions from global agriculture are climbing by 1 percent a year. Humans did once upon a time live without HDTVs and Hummerswe could do so again, at least in theorybut people will always have to eat. This makes reducing agricultural emissions particularly difficult. Researchers in...
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Soil frost affects greenhouse gas emissions in the Arctic
2016-01-17 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Soil frost is a nearly universal process in the Arctic. In a recent dissertation by doctoral student Marina Becher at Ume University, it is shown that the frequency and extent of soil frost is important for the release of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from arctic soil. Soil in the Arctic has for thousands of years gathered large quantities of decomposed organic matter due to the decomposition being slow at the low temperatures in the region. As temperatures in the Arctic are increasing, there...
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