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VIDEO: Osborne pledges support for steelworks staff
2015-10-02 17:54:38| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Chancellor George Osborne says ''a huge package of support'' is in place to help staff at Redcar steelworks, after the company owners go into liquidation.
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India pledges clean-energy push in UN climate submission
2015-10-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: India, the worlds third-biggest polluter, pledged to slow the rise of greenhouse gases produced by its growing economy and to rapidly build up clean-energy sources, becoming the last major country to submit its plan for tackling global warming emissions. In a plan filed to the United Nations Thursday, India said it would reduce its emissions intensity -- the amount of pollution released for each unit of economic growth -- by 33 percent to 35 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. The country also...
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EC pledges EUR 140 mln to supercomputing projects
2015-10-02 14:00:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) The European Commission has announced that it will invest EUR 140 million to fund a series of newly launched projects and centres of excellence in the field of supercomputing, or HPC (High Performance Computing). The funding is part of the Horizon 2020 programme to achieve world-class, extreme scale computing capabilities and will be used to address challenges such as increasing the energy efficiency of HPC systems or making it easier to program and run applications on these complex machines. As part of the HPC push, the EC is helping to fund eight new Centres of Excellence on supercomputing applications and codes.
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Mosaic Fertilizer pledges $2 billion to settle hazardous waste complaints
2015-10-02 02:56:38| Waste Management - Topix.net
Schematic of gypsum stacks at Mosaic Fertilizer's Uncle Sam facility in St. James Parish, from a 2014 permit application filed with the state Department of Environmental Quality. Mosaic Fertilizer, LLC, one of the world's largest manufacturers of phosphate and potash fertilizers , has entered into a $2 billion settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency , Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and Florida Department of Environmental Protection to end a 10-year battle over the disposal of hazardous wastes in huge stacks of gypsum wastes along the Mississippi River in Louisiana and in several locations in Florida.
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Climate Change: India pledges to curb greenhouse gas emissions by up to 35 percent
2015-10-02 02:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jagran: In its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) last night, India announced that it aims at achieving around 40 percent cumulative electric power installed capacity from non-fossil fuel-based energy resources by 2030. In the 38-page document, India said that it would need, as per preliminary estimates, around USD 206 billion between 2015 and 2030 for implementing adaptation actions in agriculture, forestry,...
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