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CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australia promised to press on with its carbon trade plan on Tuesday despite the U.N. climate summit’s failure to set emissions targets, but the Copenhagen outcome has cooled chances an early election on climate policy.
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PARIS, Dec 15 (Reuters) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday there was agreement between European Union member states and African countries on targets for reducing carbon emissions.
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Reports have emerged that the US is pushing for a commitment to liberalise trade in low-carbon products and services as one of the desired outcomes from the Copenhagen Summit.
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WARSAW, Nov 21 (Reuters) – Poland will sign an accord shortly under the global Kyoto Protocol to sell surplus carbon emission permits worth 15 million euros to Ireland, Environment Minister Maciej Nowicki said on Saturday.
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THE TAOISEACH would assume legal responsibility for ensuring Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions targets were met under radical new proposals for a climate change Bill.
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WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S.-traded companies may be under greater pressure to disclose their exposure to the potential cost of climate policies under a new U.S. Securities Exchange Commission staff guidance issued Tuesday.
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COPENHAGEN: The time to act is now, whether or not there is an international consensus on climate change at the UN Copenhagen talks in December, say the 100-odd legislators from major economies representing major political parties — including US, UK, France, China, Brazil, Mexico and India.
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WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S.-traded companies may be under greater pressure to disclose their exposure to the potential cost of climate policies under a new U.S. Securities Exchange Commission staff guidance issued Tuesday.
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2009-10-05 06:56:22 – Bharatbook.com included “Retail Futures-2009 Deep Research Report on China Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Industry” which gives a detailed analysis of the CDM theory, CDM distribution and CDM development prospects.
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Targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions may have to be watered down to get a deal at the critical Copenhagen climate summit, the former deputy prime minister John Prescott warns today.
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Award-winning writer Chris Barton was the only NZ reporter at the 6th World Conference of Science Journalists in London. Climate change was the big issue – and it’s about to get even bigger with the Government setting a greenhouse gas emissions target.
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Universities will have to reduce their carbon footprint in order to secure funding, it has been announced.
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PARIS (AFP)–The head of the U.N.’s panel of climate-change experts said Friday he was encouraged by climate pledges at last week’s G8 summit but warned commitments still fell short of what was required by science.
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The Scottish Government last night bowed to pressure from political opponents and the Green lobby and increased their target to cut carbon emissions by 42% by 2020.
But ministers made clear that the new target, which will be enshrined in tomorrow’s Climate Change Bill, will have conditions set on it regarding EU and UK measures which could impinge on Scotland’s ability to lead the way in terms of climate change.
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TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) – Japan’s electric power sector aims to improve carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of electricity generated to around 73 percent of the 2008/09 level by the business year 2020/21, an industry association said on Friday. Hurt by the extended shutdown of a quake-hit major nuclear plant, the power sector’s CO2 emissions per kilowatt-hour were estimated to be around 0.45 kg in the 2008/09 business year that ended last month, roughly in line with the previous year’s 0.453 kg, the Federation of Power Companies of Japan said.
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