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Encouraging signs of progress from Bonn climate talks
2013-05-07 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: A slight breath of fresh air entered the UNFCCC climate negotiations last week in Bonn, Germany. Held in the old German parliament - which was designed to demonstrate transparency and light - the meeting took on a more open feel than the past several COPs and inter-sessionals. Instead of arguing over the agenda, negotiators got down to work, discussing ways to ramp up countries' emissions-reduction commitments now and to move toward a 2015 international climate action agreement. Reaching these...
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Rich Countries Drag Feet at Climate Talks
2013-05-07 02:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Another week of international climate negotiations ended in Bonn, Germany last Friday, but there was little mid-level bureaucrats could do when world leaders remain in thrall to the fossil fuel industry, say environmentalists. "The main barrier to confronting the climate crisis isn't lack of knowledge about the problem, nor is it the lack of cost-effective solutions," said Alden Meyer, director of strategy at the Union of Concerned Scientists."World leaders are acting like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."...
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Campbell Soup talks data acquisition
2013-05-06 10:40:07| Food - Topix.net
"From a corporate position we knew we didn't want nine different solutions. We wanted a common solution that we could go forward with as one.
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Major League Baseball Great Pedro Martinez Talks Baseball And Clean And Green' Lighting With LED Maker, Evolucia Inc.
2013-05-06 07:03:36| pollutiononline News Articles
Evolucia Inc. (OTCBB and OTCQB: ILED) teamed-up with Major League Baseball great,Pedro Martinez, to talk baseball and energy efficient lighting at the world's largest lighting tradeshow, LIGHTFAIR® International in Philadelphia
Report: US pushing plan for individual climate goals at UN talks
2013-05-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: A United States-led plan that would allow countries to set their own climate targets is gaining traction at United Nations climate change talks. The initiative amounts to scrapping the foundation of the Kyoto Protocol, which was struck in 1997 and set marks for reducing global emissions by 2012. The 160 nations involved in the Bonn, Germany, negotiations are looking to hammer out a plan to prevent a temperature rise of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit by 2020. The next chance to strike an agreement would...
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