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Contrasting commitments to conservation
2015-06-14 11:27:27| Waste Management - Topix.net
Norman Mayor Cindy Rosenthal says elected leaders in Midwest City and Del City acted prematurely this spring in opposing a proposal to augment the reservoir with treated wastewater. Norman has advocated a plan to capture water from its wastewater treatment plan and pump it to Dave Blue Creek, where it would be discharged to flow into Lake Thunderbird.
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China reaffirms 2030 climate commitments: State Council
2015-06-13 04:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China's Premier Li Keqiang reaffirmed the government's commitment to achieve peak carbon emissions by "around 2030", the State Council said in a statement issued late on Friday. The statement contained no new commitments ahead of crucial climate talks scheduled to take place in Paris at the end of the year. Li, at a meeting of the State Council's National Leading Group on Climate Change, also said it would impose a "tough limit" on the expansion of heavily polluting and energy-intensive industries....
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Climate Change Meeting To Focus On Ensuring Countries Keep Commitments
2015-06-01 15:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The world's governments are meeting today in Bonn, Germany, to work on a U.N. agreement to tackle climate change, a day after European energy companies urged them to adopt a pricing system for carbon emissions. NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce, who is reporting on the story for our Newscast unit, says the meeting in Bonn is part of the run-up to a major climate summit being held in Paris at the end of the year. Here's more from Nell: "Negotiators from nearly 200 countries have gathered in Bonn. They're...
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Zero deforestation commitments bearing fruit in the Amazon
2015-05-13 21:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A high profile pledge by the world's largest meat company to limit deforestation for cattle production in the Amazon appears to be working, resulting in a dramatic increase in compliance with environmental registries and reduced forest clearing among supplier ranches, finds a comprehensive study published in the journal Conservation Letters. To reach that conclusion, researchers led by Holly Gibbs of the University of Wisconsin-Madison analyzed cattle sourcing by JBS, which along with two other...
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Sustainability in Beer - Part II: Targets, Goals and Commitments
2015-02-09 12:07:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
In the second part of this month's management briefing, which looks at sustainability in the global brewing category, Ben Cooper reviews the commitments from several of the world's largest beer companies.
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