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Alberta in Talks on Climate Policy With Eye to Keystone Approval
2015-02-26 14:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Alberta is in talks with other Canadian provinces and U.S. states to cooperate on climate and environmental policies as it seeks to improve the reputation of its oil sands and win approval of TransCanada Corp.s Keystone pipeline. The oil-rich province is in discussions with governments in North America and overseas, as well as institutions, to coordinate policies aimed at lowering carbon emissions, Premier Jim Prentice said in an interview on Wednesday from Edmonton. The government plans to provide...
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California Gov. Brown proposes ambitious new climate policy goals
2015-01-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) Jan. 5 proposed increasing the state's current 33 percent renewable portfolio standard to 50 percent over the next 15 years and, over the same period, cutting petroleum use in cars and trucks in half, making heating fuels cleaner and doubling the efficiency of existing buildings. Brown announced the ambitious climate policy goals in the inaugural address/state of the state message he delivered after being sworn in for an unprecedented fourth term. In the 30-minute...
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Climate policy pledges are an important step forward but fall short of 2°C
2014-12-15 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Pledges to reduce emissions in China, Europe and the US provide an important step forward for climate change action, but a more comprehensive effort is needed to stabilize the climate below critical thresholds. Climate finance can cover investment gaps and alleviate distributional tensions, a new study shows. Researchers have released one of the most comprehensive assessments of the timing and amount of greenhouse gas emissions that each of the world's major economies could produce under different...
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Why climate change policy won't hinge on international talks
2014-09-25 14:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fortune: Its not that international diplomacy wont matter, but individual countries are already taking action to reduce carbon emissions for various reasons beyond worries about climate change. World leaders gathered at a United Nations summit this week to kick off 15 months of negotiations aimed at finalizing a climate pact next December in Paris. If you focus on those international climate talks, though, youll miss most of the real action. The fate of global efforts to tackle climate change and...
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Geoengineering the Earth's climate sends policy debate down a curious rabbit hole
2014-08-04 02:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Theres a bit in Alices Adventures in Wonderland where things get curiouser and curiouser as the heroine tries to reach a garden at the end of a rat-hole sized corridor that shes just way too big for. She drinks a potion and eats a cake with no real clue what the consequences might be. She grows to nine feet tall, shrinks to ten inches high and cries literal floods of frustrated tears. I spent a couple of days at a symposium in Sydney last week that looked at the moral and ethical issues...
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