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UK plan to halve carbon emissions affordable, adviser says
2013-12-12 02:36:19| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The U.K.'s ambition to cut carbon emissions by half is affordable and mustn't be watered down, the government's adviser on global warming said. "There is no reason to change the budget," John Gummer, chairman of the Committee on Climate Change and a member of the parliament's upper house, said in London. The advice is included in a report Wednesday that concludes a two-part review of Britain's target to reduce emissions by half by 2025 from 1990 levels. The goal caused friction between ministers...
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Implementing global aviation emissions plan no simple task
2013-10-07 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Concessions made by the United Nations' aviation body to wrap up two weeks of tense negotiations could make achieving the goal of a market-based measure to cap carbon emissions from airlines harder to achieve. The International Civil Aviation Organization agreed in Montreal on Friday to design a global scheme to reduce the growth of the sector's greenhouse gas emissions. The scheme will be hashed out in 2016 and is intended to start in 2020. But existing differences between countries sharpened...
Marylands New Emissions Plan Shows Climate Action Is Cost-Effective
2013-07-26 23:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: As impacts from climate change become more visible and costly, leaders across the nation are responding. In the wake of projections from the University of Marylands Center for Environmental Science showing that Maryland could face sea-level rise of more than six feet by the end of the century, Governor Martin OMalley unveiled a state climate action plan this week. The initiative will reduce greenhouse gas emissions while also supporting job creation and economic growth. Sea-level rise will make...
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Angela Merkel 'blocks' EU plan on limiting emissions from new cars
2013-06-28 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: German chancellor Angela Merkel personally thwarted plans this week to improve the fuel efficiency of European cars, in order to protect luxury marques including BMW, Audi and Daimler. Supporters of the policy, which had been agreed by officials from the 27 EU nations, say it would save motorists in the UK 400 a year in fuel costs. David Cameron helped Merkel block the plan to limit emissions from new cars sold in 2020, despite his own department of transport being in favour. The plan had been...
Lawmakers Release Carbon Emissions Tax Plan
2013-03-13 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Almost exactly four years after unveiling his doomed cap-and-trade proposal to deal with global warming, Representative Henry Waxman, Democrat of California, released a new plan on Tuesday to address climate change and federal budget woes: a tax on carbon emissions. Mr. Waxman, joined by Representative Earl Blumenauer, Democrat of Oregon, and Senators Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Brian Schatz of Hawaii, both Democrats, distributed a relatively simple proposal to impose a fee on greenhouse...