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WORLD MEAT CONGRESS: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Livestock
2014-06-16 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ANALYSIS - Livestock is producing 7.1 giga-tonnes of greenhouse gases (GHG) per year – 14.5 per cent of the total human induce emissions, writes Chris Harris from the World Meat Congress in Beijing.
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U.N. climate talks edge towards 2015 emissions deal
2014-06-15 15:39:57| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.N. climate negotiations made tentative progress on Saturday towards a text for a 2015 deal to bind all nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The talks, which were heading to a close on Saturday, drew some 1,900 diplomats from 182 countries to Bonn to line up what their leaders will be prepared to sign up to next year to tackle emissions that U.N.-backed scientists say will cause more severe flooding, droughts and the sea level to rise. Negotiators and observers said signs of action from...
Alberta revising climate change plan, no changes in works emissions
2014-06-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Calgary Herald: Environment Minister Robin Campbell says Alberta is busy revising its 2008 climate change plan, but the province won't alter its old targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The province has previously acknowledged its current strategy will fall short of cutting emissions by 50 megatonnes by 2020, triggering promises two years ago that Alberta would revamp its plan. In an interview this week, Campbell said the new strategy won't be a complete revision of the 2008 blueprint introduced by former...
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Damen delivers its first hybrid tug to Iskes; up to 30% savings on fuel, 40% on emissions
2014-06-14 13:30:33| Green Car Congress
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Protecting rainforests could sequester eqivalent of a third of global emissions annually
2014-06-13 23:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Eliminating deforestation, peatlands and forest degradation, and forest fires in the tropics could reduce global carbon emissions by two billion tons a year, or nearly a fifth, argues a new study published in Global Change Biology. The research, authored by John Grace and Edward Mitchard of the University of Edinburgh and Emanuel Gloor of the University of Leeds, analyzed various emissions sources and sinks across the tropics. They found that carbon emissions from activities that damage and destroy...
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