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AMD announces x86 licensing deal, $293 million joint venture to build servers for China
2016-04-22 13:30:03| Extremetech
AMD announced a new $293 million joint venture with a Chinese organization yesterday, with potentially significant ramifications for the company's long-term earnings. Zen, Polaris, and other next-generation products remain on-track.
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Carbon pricing campaign stepped up ahead of climate deal ceremony
2016-04-22 12:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A group of world leaders and international banks on Thursday urged more countries to launch schemes that put a price on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were among leaders calling for faster action on carbon pricing, along with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, ahead of Friday's New York signing ceremony for the climate deal agreed in Paris last December. Some 40 nations and more than 23 cities, states and...
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With climate deal, activists seeks land rights for native people
2016-04-22 12:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: With world leaders converging in New York to sign a landmark climate deal, activists along with actor Alec Baldwin called on Thursday for a halt to deforestation, a contributor to global warming, by giving indigenous people rights to their land. Keeping indigenous tribes from being pushed off their land would help protect forests that absorb planet-warming greenhouse gasses, they told reporters in New York City. The climate change agreement, which commits world nations to lower greenhouse emissions,...
171 states signing landmark Paris deal on climate change
2016-04-22 11:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The historic agreement on climate change marked a major milestone on Friday with a record 175 countries signing on to it on opening day. But world leaders made clear more action is needed, and quickly, to fight a relentless rise in global temperatures. With the planet heating up to record levels, sea levels rising and glaciers melting, the pressure to have the Paris Agreement enter into force and to have every country turn its words into deeds was palpable at the U.N. signing ceremony. "The...
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Paris climate deal set to be signed by record number of states
2016-04-22 10:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A Paris deal to slow climate change is set to be signed by more than 165 countries at the United Nations on Friday, the most states to endorse an international agreement on day one a record backers hope will inspire swift implementation. Many states still need a parliamentary vote to formally approve the agreement. It will only enter into force when ratified by at least 55 nations representing 55% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon wants to use the event...
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