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Obama: Current levels of carbon emissions 'not right, not safe'
2013-06-25 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama says scientists concur that the Earth warming and that human activity contributes to it. Obama says that the debate over climate change has been put to rest
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Canada says sees no net increase in emissions from Keystone
2013-06-25 22:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Canada does not think there would be a net increase in carbon emissions if TransCanada Corp builds its proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta's oil sands to Texas, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, U.S. President Barack Obama had indicated he would block the pipeline if it significantly increased the problem of carbon pollution and said the net effects of its impact on the climate would be a critical factor. "On a net basis, we don't see any increase...
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Official: Obama to link pipeline OK to emissions
2013-06-25 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A White House official says President Barack Obama is telling the State Department it shouldn't approve the Keystone XL pipeline unless it's sure the project won't increase greenhouse gas emissions. Obama will make the announcement Tuesday in a speech on his climate change plan at Georgetown University. That's according to a senior White House official, who wasn't authorized to discuss the announcement by name ahead of Obama's speech and spoke on condition of anonymity. Environmental activists...
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Obama will OK Keystone only if it wont increase carbon emissions
2013-06-25 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Big news from President Obama`s climate speech: He says he won`t approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline if it will "significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution." It`s hard to know exactly what he means by that, but it`s a surprise that he mentioned Keystone at all. Pundits expected he would keep silent on the issue. Here`s what he said: I know theres been ... a lot of controversy surrounding the proposed Keystone pipeline that would carry oil from Canadian tar sands...
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Report: EU Emissions Trading System is becoming an 'anti-climate policy'
2013-06-25 13:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The European Union's carbon trading scheme has delivered a price of carbon that is so low that it risks becoming an "anti-climate policy", cancelling out hundreds of millions of tonnes of emissions savings from other green schemes. That is the stark warning of a new report launched today by the campaign group Sandbag, which calls on the European Commission to urgently reform the flailing EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) by deleting at least 1.7 billion surplus allowances that have caused the...
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