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China: Beijing vows to tackle 'excessive' growth in car ownership
2013-01-22 12:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The Chinese government yesterday unveiled a series of commitments designed to tackle the smog crisis engulfing Beijing, including controversial plans to force 180,000 old vehicles off the streets. Speaking at the opening of the annual session of the city's legislature, Beijing's Mayor Wang Ashun vowed that the authorities would undertake ambitious measures to "speed up the construction of a beautiful city with blue skies, green earth and clean water". He said the government would ban 180,000...
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Can Obama tackle climate change in his second term?
2013-01-21 19:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: A week after he won the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama addressed a gathering of governors and other officials in Los Angeles, assuring them that global warming would be a top priority for his first term. "Now is the time to confront this challenge once and for all," he said. "Delay is not an option." His goal at the time? An ambitious plan to cut America`s heat-trapping greenhouse-gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050 and invest $150 billion in new clean-energy and efficiency technologies...
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EU helps MRC to tackle climate change in the Mekong
2013-01-17 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vientiane Times: The European Union (EU) yesterday committed 4.95 million euros (over US$6 million) to the Mekong River Commission (MRC) to boost its efforts to respond to the region's climate change challenges. Representatives of the EU and the MRC signed the funding agreement in Luang Prabang yesterday on the sidelines of the 19th Mekong River Commission Council meeting. Lao Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Mr Noulin Sinbandhit, who chaired the meeting, representatives from MRC member countries...
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March Ports & Logistics Meet Gears-Up to Tackle African Supply Chain Development Issues for 2013
2013-01-17 08:58:42| Logistics - Topix.net
Now into its 4th year, the Africa Ports, Logistics and Supply Chain Conference is the premier event focusing on ports, terminals and their allied cargo movements and trade flows.
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Pressure mounts on China to tackle smog crisis
2013-01-14 14:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: China's closely controlled state media has today joined the chorus of calls for the government to take greater action to tackle air pollution, as record levels of smog continued to afflict Beijing and several other large cities. The Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Centre confirmed yesterday levels of harmful PM2.5 had reached more than 600 micrograms per square metre in many areas, far in excess of the World Health Organisation's safe guideline limit of 25 micrograms. The US Embassy's...
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