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China pledges to halt growth of carbon emissions in climate plan
2015-07-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: China, the worlds biggest greenhouse gas polluter, pledged on Tuesday to wean its economy away from reliance on fossil fuels as it grows, and to try to bring the rise in its carbon emissions to an earlier end. The Chinese government offered the goals as building blocks for a new international agreement on countering global warming, which governments hope to reach at a conference in Paris late this year. How quickly and how much Chinas emissions will grow is crucial to the arithmetic of global...
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China's UN climate pledges 'expected': state media
2015-06-29 06:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: China is expected to unveil its long-awaited national pledges to reduce carbon emissions beyond 2020, a state-run newspaper said Monday, as Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visits Belgium and France ahead of a Paris climate summit. The world's number one emitter has yet to put forward its intended nationally determined contribution (INDC), as the pledges are called by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Speculation has mounted that the announcement will be made during Li's visit...
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AT&T pledges USD 3 bln investment in Mexico
2015-06-26 08:37:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) AT&T announced plans to invest USD 3 billion in Mexico by the end of 2018 in order to extend mobile broadband services. This follows the US operator spending USD 4.4 billion to acquire local mobile providers Iusacell and Nextel Mexico. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson made the pledge in a meeting with Mexico's president Enrique Pena Nieto, where he praised the regulatory reforms in the country, opening up opportunities for investment. AT&T plans to create a 'North American Mobile Service Area', covering 400 million people in the US and Mexico with its mobile broadband network. AT&T said the first phase of its mobile network upgrade in Mexico will be complete in the next six months and cover 40 million Mexicans, about one-third of the population. By the end of 2016, AT&T expects its mobile internet service will reach 75 million people, nearly two-thirds of the population. AT&T plans to reach 100 million people by year-end 2018. Next month, AT&T will introduce new plans for Mexican customers to use their individual plans including voice, data and text messaging while in the US. Customers on these new plans will also be able to use their available minutes to call friends and family in the US who are on the AT&T network. AT&T will also introduce Google Play billing in Mexico and roll out its customer experience programme Nuestra Promesa (Our Promise).
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To Sway Regulators, Charter Pledges to Play Nice on Internet
2015-06-25 18:20:08| Telecom - Topix.net
Charter is trying to convince the government that consumers will benefit if it is allowed to create a cable giant through its proposed $67.1 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House. Charter Communications Inc. says it will roll out faster Internet with no data caps, and that it will not block or slow traffic or permit paid fast lanes for some content.
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Boyd Gaming pledges $2.5 million for UNLV hotel college building
2015-06-19 10:12:48| Trucking - Topix.net
Las Vegas-based Boyd Gaming announced today that it will spend $2.5 million to expand the hotel college at UNLV. Boyd said in a statement that it's going to partner with the university on the construction of a new academic building for the hotel college.
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