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Germany works to weaken EU car emissions law
2013-06-23 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Germany has put forward a new proposal to weaken EU draft rules on vehicle emission limits for carbon dioxide as it struggles to persuade other nations to help it protect its powerful car industry, EU sources said. Talks on a legal text are in their final stages, but German efforts to ensure its luxury car makers, such as BMW and Daimler, can continue to produce more polluting, less fuel efficient cars, have complicated the debate. Last week, Germany had to abandon another proposal it had made...
Kerry Urges India to Reduce Emissions of Greenhouse Gases
2013-06-23 12:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on India today to join the U.S. in seeking to curb global warming, saying the worlds largest democracy and its oldest democracy are best suited to lead the effort. The top U.S. diplomat used a speech in New Delhi to appeal for an alliance to help curb climate change as he began a three-day visit to meet with Indian officials. Today we must recognize the science of climate change is screaming at us for action, Kerry said. Working together, the U.S....
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Global Carbon Emissions & Sinks Since 1750
2013-06-21 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CleanTechnica: The world reached a grim milestone recently, with atmospheric concentrations at the historic Mauna Loa observatory hitting the 400 parts per million mark due to ever increasing global carbon emissions. While this event rightly got the media coverage it deserved, rarely do we stop to appreciate the incredible job land and ocean sinks have played in ensuring this figure isnt significantly higher. Using data for all sources and sinks of human carbon emissions over the last 262 years this post highlights...
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EU Parliament committee passes revised emissions trading scheme fix
2013-06-20 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: A European Parliament committee this week threw a lifeline to the beleaguered EU emissions trading system, passing a revised measure to "backload" allowances. The EP's Environment Committee Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill that makes changes in to a proposed fix for ETS that was rejected by the 754-member plenary body in April. The revised proposal contains compromises meant to make the plan to manipulate the struggling open market for the allowances more acceptable to EP members who...
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Obama to tap executive powers to curb emissions blamed for global warming
2013-06-20 01:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term. "We know we have to do more -- and we will do more," Obama said Wednesday in Berlin. Obama's senior energy and climate adviser, Heather Zichal, said the plan would boost energy efficiency of appliances and buildings, expand renewable energy and use the Environmental Protection Agency's authority under...
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