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UK and China launch 3-year, 20M low carbon innovation program
2014-03-06 13:30:19| Green Car Congress
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'Carbon bubble' threatens markets
2014-03-06 08:45:11| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The world's financial markets could be creating a "carbon bubble" by overvaluing the fossil fuel assets of large companies.
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80% of Europeans want a low carbon economy to help tackle climate change
2014-03-04 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Four out of five people in the European Union recognize that fighting climate change and using energy more efficiently can boost the economy and employment, according to a special Eurobarometer opinion poll on climate change published today. Several countries which suffered most in the economic and financial crisis are among the countries where recognition of the economic benefits of climate action and energy efficiency is highest. In no Member State did fewer than 65% of respondents agree. The...
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Soil as Carbon Storehouse: New Weapon Climate Fight?
2014-03-04 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: In the 19th century, as land-hungry pioneers steered their wagon trains westward across the United States, they encountered a vast landscape of towering grasses that nurtured deep, fertile soils. Today, just three percent of North Americas tallgrass prairie remains. Its disappearance has had a dramatic impact on the landscape and ecology of The worlds cultivated soils have lost 50 to 70 percent of their original carbon stock. the U.S., but a key consequence of that transformation has largely...
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Energy firms call for urgent carbon market action
2014-03-04 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EurActiv: Four Fortune 500 companies have written to the UK's energy minister, Ed Davey, calling for the rapid cancellation of two billion carbon allowances as EU energy and environment ministers begin two days of high-stakes policy talks in Brussels. The CEOs of four companies -- Alstom UK, Shell UK, Doosan and SSE -- all warn that the six-year wait for light reform of the Emissions Trading System (ETS) proposed in the EU's 2030 climate and energy package, neglects an "immediate problem' of carbon credit...
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