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IEA outlines climate challenge in cheap fossil fuel world

2015-11-10 14:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Home: Governments should ban inefficient coal power plants, International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol said on Tuesday. They also need to boost support for renewables, regulate to improve energy efficiency and crack down on methane leaks from oil and gas production. Those were Birol`s top four recommendations to close the gap between an international goal to limit global warming to 2C and inadequate voluntary national efforts. "The IEA is ready to help the [UN climate body] and governments...

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Hong Kong outlines ways to mitigate effects of climate change

2015-11-08 09:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Channel NewsAsia: The Hong Kong government has issued a report outlining ways to mitigate the effects of climate change in the city. The "Hong Kong Climate Change" report, the first of its kind, is a consolidation of the work done by both the public and private sectors to-date. It will be presented to the Paris Climate Change Conference (COP-21) later this month. Five years ago, the government put forward an ambitious target to reduce carbon intensity by 50-60 percent from 2005 levels - by 2020. And five years on,...

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