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Plan Bay Area: Controversy Swirls Around Ambitious California Attempt To Combat Climate Change
2013-05-26 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Marin Independent: The Bay Area will be spewing an additional 1.6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually by 2040 if opponents of a new long-range land-use blueprint for the Bay Area get their way. That estimate -- the equivalent of burning 20,456 tanker trucks of gasoline or 6,664 rail cars of coal -- comes from the environmental impact report for Plan Bay Area, a long-range housing blueprint that has ignited controversy in Marin. A collaboration of four regional government agencies, Plan Bay Area was...
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Report: South Korea to launch world's most ambitious carbon trading scheme
2013-05-14 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: South Korea is preparing to introduce the world's most ambitious emissions trading scheme, potentially paving the way for carbon costs as high as $90 a tonne for many of the country's key industries. That is the stark conclusion of a major new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) and Ernst & Young, which hails the proposed scheme as the world's most ambitious carbon-pricing policy but warns that changes to the proposals may be required before the scheme is introduced in 2015 to avoid...
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Morocco's Ambitious Renewable-Energy Program
2013-05-02 20:12:23| ENR.com: Headline News
By 2020, the country plans to generate over 40% of its energy from renewables.
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Copenhagen's ambitious push to be carbon-neutral by 2025
2013-04-12 16:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Among the first sights to greet visitors to Denmark on the descent to Copenhagen's airport is a sweeping arc of wind turbines rising from the harbor. From the airport, passengers can board an automatic Metro line that hustles them to the city center in just 15 minutes, crossing the path of the City Circle Line, a subway project that will place 85 percent of Copenhageners within 650 yards of a Metro station when the line opens in 2018. Everywhere, visitors are greeted by streams of bicyclists;...
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China's ambitious quest for shale gas
2013-04-06 02:08:49| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Can America's success with fracking be emulated by Beijing?
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