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Fossil fuel subsidies killing UK's low-carbon future
2013-11-07 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Britain is "shooting itself in the foot" by subsidising its coal, oil and gas industries by $4.2bn (2.6bn) a year even as government reviews the "green levies" on energy bills which support energy efficiency and renewable power, according to a report published on Thursday. The figures from the Overseas Development Institute suggest that Britain is now the world's fifth largest subsidiser of fossil fuels after the US, Russia, Australia and Germany despite commitments to cut carbon emissions and...
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JRC study finds 8 metals for low-carbon energy technologies at risk of shortages; EVs, wind and solar, and lighting the applications of most concern
2013-11-04 11:30:11| Green Car Congress
Memo to sceptics of a low-carbon world 'It's happening'
2013-10-10 12:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: This year, the US is on track to install one solar energy system every four minutes. Not bad you might think, especially in a country where powerful oil and gas interests are keen to block progress on clean energy. But there is a country that knocks the baseballing nation for a cricketing six Bangladesh. Late last year, the award-winning renewable energy scheme Grameen Shakti celebrated the installation of its 1 millionth home solar energy system and that in one of the world's poorest counties....
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Court Upholds California's Pioneering Low-Carbon Fuel Standard
2013-09-19 07:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A federal appeals court has upheld California's first-in-the-nation mandate requiring fuel producers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected arguments from fuel makers that California's low carbon fuel standard discriminates against out-of-state producers. The ruling reverses a U.S. District Court ruling in favor of the fuel makers, and removes an injunction halting implementation of the law. The fuel standard...
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UK publishes detail draft of low-carbon energy generation contract
2013-08-08 01:00:00| Power Technology
The UK government has published a detailed draft of the contract aimed at providing policy certainty for investors in low-carbon energy generation.
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