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British plan to avert climate disaster using sun power

2013-09-29 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Two of Britain's leading scientists have urged the setting up of a world Sunpower Programme to deliver solar electricity that is cheaper than fossil fuel power by 2025. All countries should be invited to participate, say Sir David King, a former government chief scientific adviser, and the economist Lord Richard Layard in an article in the Observer online today. The programme's target would be the development of techniques that see solar electricity generate at least 10% of the world's total energy...

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U.N. struggling to avert carbon trade war with aviation deal

2013-09-02 16:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Talks at the U.N.'s aviation body must bridge a deep divide between developed and emerging nations over airline emissions to avert the threat of a carbon trade war with the European Union. After more than a decade of debate at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), there is little sign emerging powers China and India are ready to pay to pollute. Failure to get a deal would open the way for the European Union to resume international implementation of its own law that makes all aviation...

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US: MillerCoors agrees deal with workers to avert strike

2013-08-20 17:18:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com

MillerCoors has agreed a deal with union workers in Milwaukee after the threat of strike action over pay and benefits.

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Can cowboys help avert a cash crisis in Pennsylvania?

2013-07-19 01:14:12| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Why one US city is selling the Wild West to ease a debt crisis

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Privileged position to avert the worst of climate change

2013-05-12 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National: On Thursday, two observatories in Hawaii confirmed that atmospheric carbon dioxide had exceeded 400 parts per million. When carbon dioxide levels were last this high, three million years ago, the world was 3 degrees hotter, the sea was at least 10 metres higher than today and camels roamed the high Arctic. In itself, this is an arbitrary, but notable landmark in the steady rise of greenhouse gases. Before the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide was only 280 parts per million - since then global...

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