je.st
news
Tag: climate
Washington scraps proposed carbon rule, plans new steps on climate
2016-03-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Washington air regulators last week withdrew their plan to cap large greenhouse gas emitters, promising to present a new proposal in the spring that some observers hope will be more akin to other carbon regulations in the United States. The now-defunct proposal by Gov. Jay Inslee's (D) Department of Ecology would have subjected emitters of more than 100,000 tons per year of carbon to a 5 percent reduction every three years. About 70 facilities were targeted, including refineries, landfills and aerospace...
Tags: washington
plans
steps
proposed
Morocco climate summit faces funding drought due to EU spat
2016-03-01 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Millions of Euros to help Morocco fund this Novembers UN climate summit in Marrakech are being withheld due to a diplomatic spat between the hosts and the European Union. Ties between Brussels and Rabat were suspended last week after the European Court of Justice binned an EU-Morocco agriculture deal covering the contested Western Sahara. The region has been held by Morocco since 1975, but the court said a trade agreement covering the area was invalid due to continued protests against Rabats...
Tags: due
funding
faces
climate
Climate activists threaten to shut down world's major coal sites
2016-03-01 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate activists will use direct action to try to shut down major coal sites across the world in May, including the UKs largest opencast coal mine in south Wales. The dozen international sites facing civil disobedience from the Break Free 2016 campaign span the globe from the US to Australia and South Africa to Indonesia. The Ffos-y-fran opencast mine, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, is about halfway through extracting 11m tonnes of coal. Ellie Groves, from the Reclaim the Power network, said:...
Tags: sites
major
climate
shut
ADB backs first climate bond in Asia-Pacific for renewable energy development
2016-03-01 01:00:00| Power Technology
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is supporting issuance of the first climate bond in Asia-Pacific by providing credit-enhancement to AboitizPower's subsidiary AP Renewables in the Philippines.
Tags: development
energy
bond
climate
DiCaprio warns of climate threat in Oscars speech
2016-02-29 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Leonardo DiCaprio used his Oscar winning speech to urge world leaders to stop procrastinating and take a tougher line on climate change. Awarded Best Actor for his performance in The Revenant, DiCaprio spent two minutes thanking friends and colleagues before delivering an impassioned call to arms. Making The Revenant was about mans relationship to the natural world, a world we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history, he said. Climate change is real, it is...
Tags: speech
threat
climate
oscars
Sites : [404] [405] [406] [407] [408] [409] [410] [411] [412] [413] [414] [415] [416] [417] [418] [419] [420] [421] [422] [423] next »