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UN hails 'zero carbon' IPPC summit
2013-09-27 01:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: With more than 250 scientists and country representatives today finalising their landmark review on the latest thinking on climate change in Stockholm, you can be sure they have taken steps to cancel out their own impact on the environment. According to Swedish company Tricorona, the week-long Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting has a carbon footprint of 972 tonnes of CO2 equivalent, when accounting for travel, hotels and food. Tricorona has been able to offset the emissions...
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EUROPE: Spirits trade body hails Peru, Colombia pact
2013-09-25 13:21:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Europe's trade organisation for the spirits has praised a free-trade pact with Colombia and Peru that has eliminated import tariffs on EU spirits.
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National Grid hails North Sea carbon storage potential
2013-08-08 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The prospect of collecting emissions from an industrial hub and storing them deep below the North Sea has edged closer after initial test drilling off the Yorkshire coast was yesterday declared a success. National Grid said that its exploration project revealed an undersea site 65 kilometres (40 miles) offshore could hold around 200 million tonnes of CO2 - equivalent to taking 10 million cars off the roads for a decade. This type of storage site is common across Europe, potentially providing crucial...
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US: PepsiCo hails US share growth in H1 as profits turn black
2013-07-24 14:33:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
PepsiCo has posted a strong lift in half-year profits on steady sales, with its share of the US drinks market improving in the period.
EU hails China's commitment to climate change
2013-07-18 16:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The European Union said Wednesday that China, the world's largest carbon emitter, was willing to cooperate more closely to address climate change worldwide ahead of a key global pact due in 2015. Following talks with China's top climate negotiator Xie Zhenhua, EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said Beijing understood the competitive advantage of shifting to a low carbon economy. "(Xie) said very clearly that to go low carbon, that spells opportunity, that is the way we must have growth...
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