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Australia: Government may be forced to increase emissions cut
2013-09-29 09:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The Coalition government may have to cut Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by twice as fast as has been planned. An analysis of international commitments following the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggests Australia will be obliged to cut emissions to 10 to 15 per cent below 2000 levels by 2020, rather than the 5 per cent the Coalition had been promising. The Coalition's policy document commits it to a 5 per reduction ''without the need for a great big new...
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Obama Releases Plan Outlining 17% Decrease in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
2013-09-28 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: After repeatedly stating that a 17 percent reduction in overall greenhouse gas emissions compared to 2005 levels is still in reach, the Obama administration released a 30-page draft report Thursday detailing exactly how it plans on going about this. The report lays out in greater detail the climate action plan President Barack Obama announced in June, and includes carbon limits on both new and existing power plants in addition to stricter energy efficiency standards, among other things. Policies...
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'Reducing emissions won't be enough'
2013-09-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature: Tim Kruger organized a conference on technologies to extract greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The worlds leading advocates -- and sceptics -- of sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to solve global warming gathered this week in Oxford, UK. Negative emissions technologies have proven controversial, with criticisms ranging from their technical infeasibility to the fact that they may distract from reducing emissions of greenhouse gasses. Tim Kruger, the programme manager of...
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China still leads the world in emissions, with no end in sight
2013-09-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: People write about China's growth so much it's daunting to wring out something new. But--wow--when you see it for the first time in a few years, it still delivers one hell of a punch. I lived in China for a year before the Beijing's 2008 Olympics (a kind of development event horizon in China's history, towards which the whole country hurtled), and I've been back regularly enough to marvel at changes first hand. But I have never before been as dumbfounded as during a train ride this week from...
EU stands firm on aviation emissions position
2013-09-27 23:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Europe cannot accept a global deal to curb the growth of aviation emissions through a markets-based scheme starting in 2020 unless it allows for regional measures to operate in the interim, its top climate change official said Friday. Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action, said because it would take at least seven years to get a global market scheme in place, measures like the EU's emissions trading scheme are needed in the meantime. Hedegaard spoke as delegates from more than...
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