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UK's 2050 CO2 goal to cost extra 30 billion pounds without CCS: report

2016-07-20 01:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Meeting Britain's carbon emissions reduction target for 2050 will cost an additional 30 billion pounds ($40 billion) without large-scale deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, a report by the National Audit Office shows. The British government decided to withdraw 1 billion pounds of funding to help commercialize CCS technology in a spending review in November last year. CCS captures carbon dioxide and stores it underground to stop it escaping into the atmosphere. CCS is...

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Go the extra recycling mile: Leave no plastic behind

2016-07-08 21:41:53| PortlandOnline

How to set up extra plastics recycling at your workplace.]

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Sadiq Khan unveils plans for extra charge on London's most polluting cars

2016-07-05 11:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Older, dirtier cars will have to pay a 10 pollution charge to drive in central London, according to plans set out by Sadiq Khan on Tuesday. The charge, on top of the existing 11.50 congestion charge, would apply from 2017 to cars first sold before 2005. The mayor of Londons proposals to tackle the capitals toxic air also include a big expansion of a planned Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) and a faster roll-out of cleaner buses. Cities are growing around the world and air pollution is...

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