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New $20M XPRIZE Aims To Tackle CO2 Emissions From Fossil Fuels

2015-10-02 05:42:10| autocentral Home Page

At Fortune’s Brainstorm E conference today, XPRIZE Chairman and CEO Peter Diamandis announces the $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, a competition to address CO2 emissions from fossil fuels

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New $20M XPRIZE Aims To Tackle CO2 Emissions From Fossil Fuels

2015-10-02 05:42:10| pollutiononline Home Page

At Fortune’s Brainstorm E conference today, XPRIZE Chairman and CEO Peter Diamandis announces the $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, a competition to address CO2 emissions from fossil fuels

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China to Congress: This is how tackle climate change

2015-09-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Editorial: Science, economics and even the Holy See have failed to persuade the U.S. Congress to tackle climate change. Now, perhaps an even more powerful influence may come to bear: the determination not to be outdone by China. On Friday, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases announced it will begin a national cap-and-trade program in 2017. It will limit total emissions and let individual emitters, including power, steel, chemicals and other industrial producers, trade emissions allowances --...

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UK & EU Consumers, industry, want tighter EU rules tackle illegal timber

2015-09-23 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: UK consumers (76 per cent) want better laws that ensure the legality of wood products on the market in the UK and across Europe, a new survey finds. Major timber-related businesses from the UK and other EU countries, from producers to retailers, have also signed a new statement to the European Commission calling for the EU to tighten the current rules on illegal timber use. The EU Timber Regulation, or EUTR, is designed to keep illegally sourced timber out of the marketplace, and is under review...

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