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More than 100 flights affected by technical glitch at Vienna airport
2016-08-30 01:00:00| Airport Technology
More than 100 flights have been delayed or cancelled following a technical glitch at Vienna Airport in Austria.
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Crystal Mozart Cruise Ship, Vienna
2016-08-24 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Crystal Mozart, a river cruise ship operated by Crystal Cruises, was christened in Vienna, Austria, on 11 July 2016 and is expected to enter service in October 2016.
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Deal on cutting greenhouse gases in sight for this year: Vienna delegates
2016-07-24 16:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A global agreement on cutting the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) - potent greenhouse gases used in aerosols, refrigerants and air conditioning - seems within grasp, delegates said on Sunday after ten days of talks on climate change in Vienna. A final deal is expected to be reached at a meeting in October in Kigali, Rwanda. If successful, it would be the biggest single measure to limit global warming since governments adopted the Paris Agreement last December, seeking to limit heat waves, floods,...
A sequel to the Paris Climate Accord takes shape in Vienna
2016-07-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: When negotiators from nearly 200 countries gathered outside Paris in December for the United Nations summit meeting on climate change, they reached the first agreement to take action on curbing their planet-warming pollution. This weekend in Vienna, with far less attention, negotiators from those same countries neared a deal that many environmentalists have called the most significant action this year to reduce global warming. While the Paris agreement aims to reduce the use of coal and oil, which...
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World leaders poised to seal landmark emissions deal in Vienna
2016-07-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: In 1987, the Montreal Protocol set the ozone layer on the path to recovery. In 2016, it could take a bite out of greenhouse gas emissions. Officials convened in Vienna this week to amend the Montreal Protocol, which phased out ozone-killing refrigerants called CFCs nearly three decades earlier. Now the delegation is nearing an international deal to reduce HFCs, says EPA administrator Gina McCarthy. We are seeing all countries coming into this meeting with an incredibly positive and collaborative...