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Can China really turn its emissions around by 2025?
2013-05-30 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: IT COULD just be the breakthrough the world has been waiting for. After years of prevarication, China now reportedly wants to ensure its carbon dioxide emissions peak, perhaps as early as 2025 (see "China moots reaching emissions peak by 2025"). With US emissions also peaking, due largely to growing use of shale gas, the world's two biggest polluters may finally be committed to action action made even more timely by recent studies that have eliminated some of the scarier climate scenarios, creating...
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John Kerrys misfire on U.S. performance on Kyoto emissions targets
2013-05-30 05:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: "We are below the Kyoto levels now. We are below the Waxman-Markey levels. ...We are doing things but nobody is doing enough.' -- Secretary of State John F. Kerry, remarks at Youth Connect with BBC's Hardtalk, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 26, 2013 "The United States of America today is below Kyoto levels in emissions. People don't know that. The United States today is actually below the Waxman-Markey legislation mandates that didn't pass. So we're doing things -- automobile efficiency, standards,...
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Ford LCA harmonization study clarifies benefits of lightweighting for vehicle life cycle energy use and GHG emissions
2013-05-29 21:30:17| Green Car Congress
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EU's greenhouse gas emissions sink to lowest since 1990
2013-05-29 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Greenhouse gases emitted by the European Union fell by 3.3 percent in 2011 to their lowest level since 1990, the European Environment Agency said on Wednesday. The 2011 decline, which coincided with a 1.6 percent rise in GDP, was the result of a relatively mild winter, the agency said. It followed a rise in 2010 when a colder winter and a rebound in many economies drove up energy use, breaking a multi-year pattern of emissions' declines. Jacqueline McGlade, the head of the European Environment...
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How FedEx is Reducing Fuel Use and Emissions
2013-05-29 12:41:15| Air Courier - Topix.net
A transportation fleet is essential to FedEx and the services it provides, so reducing its fuel consumption and the emissions from its aircraft and vehicle fleet are key areas of focus for the company, as its recently released CSR report shows.
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