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Chinese Municipal Leaders Pledge an Early Peak of CO2 Emissions
2015-09-15 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Leaders of 11 Chinese cities and provinces, including Beijing and the major industrial center of Guangzhou, are announcing that their carbon emissions will peak earlier than the national target of an emissions peak by 2030. The cities will make their announcement today at a meeting of global municipal and regional leaders who are dedicated to reducing CO2 emissions. Beijing and Guangzhou are pledging that their CO2 emissions will peak by 2020. The 11 cities and regions are part of the Alliance of...
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Chinese cities pledge early carbon emissions peak under deal with US
2015-09-15 05:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Leaders of 10 Chinese cities and one major province are to announce that their carbon emissions will start to fall earlier than China's national target of 2030 at a US-China meeting on Tuesday, a move meant to build momentum for a global climate change accord in December. Those announcements, as well emission-reduction commitments from more than a dozen US states and cities, will form part of a joint declaration that municipal and regional leaders from the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitting...
Indonesia May Increase Its Emissions Cut Pledge Ahead of Paris
2015-08-31 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Indonesia is looking to increase its current pledges on cutting emissions growth, a senior government adviser said on Monday, with a final decision likely by mid-September. Home to the world's third-largest tropical forests, and the biggest palm oil producer, Indonesia will have a key role at the United Nation's Paris climate conference late this year, which is designed to reach a plan to reduce global warming. "We intend to increase the contribution and we will do so," Rachmat Witoelar, President...
Brent Slides Below $45 as Iran Pledge Worsens Oil-Supply Outlook
2015-08-24 12:35:21| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Brent futures fell as much as 3.2 percent, extending a 7.3 percent drop last week, the most in five months. Iran will expand output "at any cost" to defend market share, Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said, according to his ministry's news website.
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Countries Slow to Pledge Emissions Cuts Before Talks
2015-08-23 20:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: Less than a third of governments seeking a global climate agreement have submitted plans for reducing emissions, raising concerns over developing countries commitment to a deal months before talks are meant to culminate in Paris. As part of the latest international effort to stave off warming, nearly 200 countries agreed to present their own plans for curbing greenhouse-gas emissions to the United Nations body overseeing the talks. The national plans are meant to be folded into a broader accord...
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