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UN proposes building blocks of new global climate deal
2014-07-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The United Nations left open the option for rich and poor nations to remain divided in their obligations on climate change, setting up a conflict over exactly who should cut greenhouse gases. In a policy paper setting out possible language to include in a global warming agreement envoys from 190 nations are drawing up for next year, the UN set out an option for maintaining a divide between developed and developing nations. Under current rules, industrial nations have targets for reducing fossil...
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Vancouver cafe blocks wireless signals to foster human interaction
2014-07-04 05:43:57| Wireless - Topix.net
A Vancouver "social artist" has opened a cafA© that blocks Internet signals from its customers, hoping it will foster social interaction.
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Orange Poland 900 MHz blocks extended for 15 years
2014-06-30 12:24:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Orange Poland announced Polish regulator UKE assigned the operator the frequency blocks 908.1914.9 MHz and 953.1959.9 MHz for a further 15 years, until 6 July 2029. The new licence is valid in the whole country and is technology-neutral. It carries a requirement to cover 90 percent of Poland's territory with telecommunication services using these frequencies. Orange noted that its coverage in the band was already over 99.5 percent at end-March. Orange uses the 900 MHz band to provide 2G services as well as data and voice services based on 3G technology (UMTS 900). Orange is the first mobile operator to pay a fee for frequency assignment for a new period under the amended Telecommunication Law. The fee was set at PLN 358.1 million and will be paid within 14 days.
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Building Blocks for the Grid
2014-06-27 23:23:00| Transmission & Distribution World
The electric utility industry is shaping not only the transmission grid with power electronics, but all facets of electric consumption. read more
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Unesco blocks Australias proposals to open up Tasmanian rainforest to logging
2014-06-25 12:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The UN has rejected a proposal from the Australian government to revoke the special protection afforded to 74,000 hectares of Tasmanian rainforest, in order to allow logging operations in the region to resume. The controversial request was unanimously rejected within just seven minutes at a meeting of the Unescos world heritage committee in Doha, as delegates from Germany, Colombia and Portugal argued against the delisting. The news agency Reuters reported that members of the Portuguese delegation...
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