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Black Sea, southeast European nations pledge emissions cut by 2027
2013-10-24 17:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Nine countries in the Black Sea region and southeast Europe agreed on Thursday to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in large power plants and oil refineries by 2027 as part of plans to forge closer ties with the European Union. Aging coal-fired plants dominate power generating capacities in Albania, Bosnia, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, Moldavia, Serbia and Ukraine which are all striving to intensify energy market cooperation with the EU. The nine countries, along with the EU, are members...
Power plant carbon emissions fall 10 percent
2013-10-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: A shift by utilities to cleaner burning natural gas helped carbon pollution from power plants fall over the last three years, according to data released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday. EPA began reporting data gathered from 8,000 facilities across the largest pollution-emitting industries on greenhouse gas in 2010. Since, power plant carbon emissions have declined 10 percent. The drop in emissions is attributed to a decrease in coal production for electricity generation...
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Greenhouse emissions are declining, but dont break out the party hats
2013-10-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: The emissions of greenhouse gases by American industry has declined 10 percent since 2010, according to data released today by the Environmental Protection Agency. That change comes as power plants increasingly choose natural gas over coal, the burning of which releases great quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Environmental scientists almost unanimously agree that the carbon dioxide and other pollutants emitted by burning fossil fuels trap heat, leading to the so-called greenhouse...
The trillion-ton cap: Allocating carbon emissions
2013-10-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the first time sets a cap on the amount of carbon emissions we can allow into the atmosphere before calling a complete and permanent halt -- if, that is, we are serious about keeping global warming below two degrees Celsius. That cap was set last month at a trillion tons of carbon. We are something over half way there, with time fast running out. But where did this figure come from; why has a measure of cumulative...
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Greenhouse gas emissions from coal mining and gas up by 13%
2013-10-24 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Greenhouse emissions from coal mining and gas production increased by almost 13% in the year to March, offsetting declining emissions from electricity production to leave Australia's annual emissions virtually unchanged. The environment minister, Greg Hunt, claimed the result was "proof' the carbon tax -- that he intends to repeal -- has been a "pointless burden' on the economy. As Australia's coal, gas and coal seam gas production increases, so-called "fugitive' emissions released during mining...
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