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Subsidies Coal Production Boost Emissions, Impede Cleaner Fuels
2015-09-16 06:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: While many G20 nations are showing some commitment to tackling climate change, most are also still spending heavily to subsidize the fossil fuel industry. A new study published today finds that subsidies for thermal coal production in two key supply regions the Powder River Basin (PRB) in the United States and Australia are significant, distorting the market, driving up emissions, and acting as a barrier to entry for cleaner energy sources. The paper shows that scrapping subsidies amounting...
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Chinese Municipal Leaders Pledge an Early Peak of CO2 Emissions
2015-09-15 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Leaders of 11 Chinese cities and provinces, including Beijing and the major industrial center of Guangzhou, are announcing that their carbon emissions will peak earlier than the national target of an emissions peak by 2030. The cities will make their announcement today at a meeting of global municipal and regional leaders who are dedicated to reducing CO2 emissions. Beijing and Guangzhou are pledging that their CO2 emissions will peak by 2020. The 11 cities and regions are part of the Alliance of...
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Chinese cities pledge early carbon emissions peak under deal with US
2015-09-15 05:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Leaders of 10 Chinese cities and one major province are to announce that their carbon emissions will start to fall earlier than China's national target of 2030 at a US-China meeting on Tuesday, a move meant to build momentum for a global climate change accord in December. Those announcements, as well emission-reduction commitments from more than a dozen US states and cities, will form part of a joint declaration that municipal and regional leaders from the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitting...
California: Bill to set 2030 emissions target pulled
2015-09-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: A nimbler version of Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) landmark climate change package is expected on the state Assembly floor today, but firm emissions targets for 2030 and 2050 eluded lawmakers in the final hours of the legislative session. S.B. 350 made it through an Assembly Natural Resources Committee hearing yesterday evening after Brown and legislative leaders said Wednesday that they would remove one of the bill's three planks: a requirement to reduce petroleum consumption 50 percent by 2030...
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New Leaf Africa Has Been Invited By Sierra Leone To Assist In Global Initiatives Geared Toward Reducing Carbon Emissions
2015-09-14 03:53:22| pollutiononline News Articles
New Leaf Africa (NLA), leaders in sustainable technology, population health and renewable energy, has been invited by the Environment Protection Agency of Sierra Leone (EPA-SL), to partner and develop new programs for the EPA-SL
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