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IEA: 7% increase in total energy investment could cut premature deaths from air pollution in half by 2040
2016-06-27 17:56:06| Green Car Congress
DNC Platform Calls for Fossil Fuel Investigations, 100% Renewable Energy
2016-06-27 15:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The committee drafting the Democratic Party platform unanimously voted to include a call for the Justice Department to investigate fossil fuel companies for misleading the public on climate change. "All corporations owe it to their shareholders to fully analyze and disclose risks they face including climate risks. Those who fail to do so should be held accountable, the committee declared. The committee also included the goal of producing 100 percent of electricity from renewable sources by...
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Renewable energy set to get a separate power trading market
2016-06-27 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Standard: With the increasing share of renewable energy in the grid and its likelihood to disturb existing power systems, the government is preparing a separate power trading platform for clean energy. The platform will be jointly developed by the ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) and Power Trading Corporation of India (PTC), a public-private venture for power trading. This would help states buy, sell and trade renewable-based power. This is likely to help states which have surplus renewable energy...
Tariff issues stall Philippine ocean energy project
2016-06-27 09:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Has the Philippines lost the opportunity to be the first country in the world to commercialise ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC)? In 2011, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced that the first OTEC plant in Zambales province will be operational in 2018. That would have made the Philippines the first country to scale up OTEC technology. OTEC generates power by converting the temperature differential between the warm surface waters and the deep cold ocean into vapour that expands under moderate...
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Air pollution to kill millions more without change of energy policy: IEA
2016-06-27 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A woman wearing a protective mask makes her way in a business district on a heavily polluted day in Beijing, China January 3, 2016. Premature deaths from air pollution will continue to rise to 2040 unless changes are made to the way the world uses and produces energy, the International Energy Agency said on Monday. Around 6.5 million deaths globally are attributed each year to poor air quality inside and outside, making it the world's fourth-largest threat to human health, behind high blood...
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