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CSIRO and partners to test Direct Injection Carbon Engine to reduce brown coal emissions by up to 50%
2014-04-28 10:30:29| Green Car Congress
Exelon Completes Ambitious Goal For Eliminating Carbon Emissions Seven Years Ahead Of Schedule
2014-04-28 06:04:05| pollutiononline Home Page
Continuing its progress toward a clean energy future, Exelon announced recently that it reduced or avoided more than 18 million metric tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2013, surpassing its goal of eliminating 17.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per year by 2020
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Carbon Capture Faces Hurdles of Will, Not Technology
2014-04-23 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: If human-caused climate change is to be slowed enough to avert the worst consequences of global warming, carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants and other pollutants will have to be captured and injected deep into the ground to prevent them from being released into the atmosphere. Such is the scenario the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change paints in its recent report outlining ways climate change can be mitigated as civilizations across the globe continue to burn fossil fuels...
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China carbon cash party over as U.N. credit stream dries up
2014-04-23 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Revenues for China's biggest sellers of U.N.-issued carbon credits shrunk last year to a tenth of 2012 values, choking off billions of dollars flowing to clean energy projects in the world's top carbon-emitter. China will now have less money to put into a stepped-up campaign to cut greenhouse gas emissions, clean its air and raise the share of fossil-free energy in its total mix to 15 percent by the end of the decade, from a current 8 percent. The U.N.'s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is...
Draft climate change legislation to tighten carbon pledges
2014-04-23 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: Draft climate change legislation to be published today contains several key changes that will tighten the States obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The heads of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development Bill will be unveiled today by Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan. Earlier versions of the planned legislation were criticised by a number of organisations campaigning in this area because they contained no specific medium-term or long- term targets for the key dates of...
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