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Biggest polluters able increase emissions under Direct Action study
2015-08-02 16:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australias 20 biggest polluters will be able to significantly increase their greenhouse gas output despite being covered by the Abbott governments so-called safeguard mechanism and will wipe out most of the emission reductions the government intends to buy from other sectors, according to new analysis which brands the Coalition policy untenable. The environment minister, Greg Hunt, says the safeguard mechanism to be imposed on 150 big emitters and announced in detail later this month...
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Obama to require steeper emissions cuts from US power plants
2015-08-02 06:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama will impose even steeper cuts on greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants than previously expected, senior administration officials said Sunday, in what the president called the most significant step the U.S. has ever taken to fight global warming. A year after proposing unprecedented carbon dioxide limits, Obama was poised to finalize the rule at a White House event on Monday. In a video posted to Facebook, Obama said the limits were backed up by decades of data...
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African farmers mitigate emissions
2015-08-01 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Livestock farming is the largest land use system on Earth. It uses 30 per cent of the worlds ice-free surface and sustains about 1.3 billion people. But livestock is also responsible for 14.5 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans, of which cattle produce 65 per cent. Better cattle management is vital to improve productivity while reducing emissions. In Kenya, researchers are working with smallholder farmers to determine the impact of this form of land use and improve cattle and...
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Implementation by City Bureaus of Policies and Programs to Keep Portland on a Path to Reduce Local Carbon Emissions 80 Percent from 1990 Levels by 2050
2015-07-31 01:29:27| PortlandOnline
BCP-ENN-5.03
ENN-5.03 - Implementation by City Bureaus of Policies and Programs to Keep Portland on a Path to Reduce Local Carbon Emissions 80 Percent from 1990 Levels by 2050
2015-07-31 01:17:36| PortlandOnline
BCP-ENN-5.03
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