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'Greener energy efforts in China help stall world's carbon dioxide emissions

2015-03-15 01:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence-France Presse: China burned less coal and generated more electricity from renewable sources last year to help global carbon dioxide emissions from the energy sector stall. It was the first time there has been such a halt in 40 years during a period of economic growth, the International Energy Agency said. The slowdown came thanks to "changing patterns of energy consumption in China and OECD countries", it said. China, which is the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, used more renewable energy last year...

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China builds worlds largest power plant

2015-01-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

SAPA: A Chinese coal mining firm claims to havebuilt the world's largest facility to generate power from methane gas emitted during coal mining, state media reported Friday. Some 99 percent of the methane emitted as a byproduct from mining can be used by the facility, which would have a maximum capacity of 30 megawatts, Xinhua news agency reported. Jia Jian, deputy head of Lu'an Group's Methane Gas Research Institute, said that the project will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 1.4 million...

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China Is the World\'s Biggest Economy

2014-12-04 08:00:00| Happi Breaking News

Overtakes the US faster than expected.

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U.S. & China, world's biggest carbon polluters, announce new climate goals

2014-11-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

InsideClimate: The United States and China announced new goals for reducing their global warming pollution in the coming decades, with the U.S. ramping up its rate of decarbonization in five to 10 years and China promising that its carbon emissions will peak in the next 15 years. The announcements, which came at a multinational summit in Beijing Tuesday, made clear for the first time the commitments that the two biggest sources of greenhouse gases will make as part of the urgent United Nations negotiations....

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