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China pledges to halt growth of carbon emissions in climate plan
2015-07-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: China, the worlds biggest greenhouse gas polluter, pledged on Tuesday to wean its economy away from reliance on fossil fuels as it grows, and to try to bring the rise in its carbon emissions to an earlier end. The Chinese government offered the goals as building blocks for a new international agreement on countering global warming, which governments hope to reach at a conference in Paris late this year. How quickly and how much Chinas emissions will grow is crucial to the arithmetic of global...
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US leaves the markets out in the fight against carbon emissions
2015-07-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: n 1990, by an overwhelming majority, Congress amended the Clean Air Act to establish a market for electric utilities to trade the right to emit sulfur dioxide, one of the main contributors to acid rain. The law was based on a simple economic insight. If utilities facing high costs to cut emissions could, instead, buy allowances to pollute from those who could cut emissions for less, reducing overall pollution would be much cheaper. The idea had been successfully used before, during the Reagan administration,...
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Julie Bishop plays down significance of China's 60% carbon reduction pledge
2015-07-01 03:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australias foreign minister, Julie Bishop, has played down the significance of China unveiling its post-2020 emissions reduction target, saying Beijings position has been known for some time. The worlds largest emitter of carbon dioxide has pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions per unit of gross domestic product by 60-65% from 2005 levels, and increase the share of non-fossil fuels as part of its primary energy consumption to about 20% by 2030. Chinas commitment, which should result...
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Into great unknown: The ability of global forests to store carbon is at risk
2015-06-30 19:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Though scientists are striving hard to discover how the world's forests will respond to climate change whether they will tip from being carbon sinks to being carbon sources much remains clouded in mystery. Photo credit: Rhett Butler. The world's tropical and subtropical forests absorb 1.1 trillion kg. (120 billion tons) of carbon from the atmosphere every year, storing it in soil and living and dead biomass, according to USDA Forest Service researcher John Parrotta. Amazonian forests alone...
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New study re-writes the rules of carbon analysis
2015-06-30 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A new study published in Nature Climate Change has found analyses of carbon emissions may be misleading as they failed to include the impacts of policies such as trading schemes, emission caps or quotas. "The inclusion of policy mechanisms can radically alter the outcomes from life-cycle analyses and result in counter-intuitive outcomes," said Associate Professor Andrew Macintosh from The Australian National University (ANU) College of Law, lead author of the study. "Traditional life-cycle analysis...
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