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India says Paris climate deal won't affect plans double coal output
2015-12-14 14:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: India still plans to double coal output by 2020 and rely on the resource for decades afterwards, a senior official said on Monday, days after rich and poor countries agreed in Paris to curb carbon emissions blamed for global warming. India, the world's third-largest carbon emitter, is dependant on coal for about two-thirds of its energy needs and has pledged to mine more of the fuel to power its resource-hungry economy while also promising to increase clean energy generation. "The environment is...
How Climate Deal Was Designed Be Republican-Proof
2015-12-14 14:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: At 11.30pm Paris time, a small group of White House officials dashed into a temporary plywood hut in the exhibition hall where, a few hours earlier, a historic legal agreement to cut emissions causing climate change was secured. They were just in time to catch a live feed of Barack Obama declaring a turning point for the world. These were the officials who helped set the US negotiating position for the talks or, perhaps more accurately, helped craft the deal according to US specifications...
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Newell Rubbermaid Reaches Deal to Buy Jarden for Cash/Stock
2015-12-14 13:47:25| Appliances - Topix.net
Newell Rubbermaid and Jarden Corporation today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine the two companies. The transaction creates a $16 billion consumer goods company to be named Newell Brands, with a portfolio of leading brands in large unconsolidated categories, including Paper Mate .
Bangladesh to improve garment worker skills after new deal
2015-12-14 13:35:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
A new agreement between the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) will see a range of activities implemented to enhance garment worker skills in the country.
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Pentagon to lose emissions exemption under Paris climate deal
2015-12-14 13:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The US military and armed forces of countries around the world will no longer be automatically exempted from emissions-cutting obligations under the UN Paris climate deal, the Guardian has learned. Although the US never ratified the Kyoto Protocol, it won an opt-out from having to fully report or act on its armed forces greenhouse gas emissions, which was then double-locked by a House national defence authorisation bill in 1999. Under the Paris agreement, countries would not be obliged to cut...
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