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Tanzania: Biomass boiler for reduced carbon emissions
2014-11-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IPP Media: Carbon emissions have been on the rise globally due to increased use of energy sources. The emissions are unfriendly to the environment in industrial production and other human activities, and thus leading to global warming and destruction of the ozone layer, among other negative effects. It is on this backdrop that industries in both developing and developed world are switching to eco-friendly energies as they seek to join the global campaign of reducing carbon emissions. One such industry...
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Obama to Introduce Sweeping New Controls on Ozone Emissions
2014-11-26 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Obama administration is expected to release on Wednesday a contentious and long-delayed environmental regulation to curb emissions of ozone, a smog-causing pollutant linked to asthma, heart disease and premature death. The sweeping regulation, which would aim at smog from power plants and factories across the country, particularly in the Midwest, would be the latest in a series of Environmental Protection Agency controls on air pollution that wafts from smokestacks and tailpipes. Such regulations,...
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Yes, the U.S. can reduce emissions 80% by 2050 in 6 graphs
2014-11-25 20:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: So, I`ve got good news and bad news. The good news: There is no substantial technical or economic barrier that would prevent the U.S. from reducing its greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, a target that would help put the world on track to limit global average temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius. In fact, there are multiple pathways to that target, each involving a different mix of technologies. Achieving the goal would cost only around 1 percent of GDP a year out through...
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Lifecycle analysis of Amyris renewable jet from sugar cane finds substantial potential to mitigate GHG emissions, but a wide range of potential outcomes
2014-11-25 12:55:45| Green Car Congress
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China carbon market to launch in 2016 following US emissions deal
2014-11-25 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: China will start a nationwide carbon market within the next two years as part of a pledge to cap emissions by 2030. The mechanism is due to start in 2016 and rules for trading permits through the cap-and-trade scheme may be announced by the end of this year, Bloomberg reported Su Wei, an official at the climate change department under the National Development and Reform Commission, as telling a press conference this week. President Xi Jinping agreed a landmark deal with US counterpart Barack...
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