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• Recession Puts U.S. Halfway to Emissions Goal

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 521
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The recession has slashed U.S. output of planet warming gases and puts the country on track to reach President Barack Obama’s short-term emissions goal, but cutting the pollution further will take more effort as the economy recovers. “Losing weight by starving is different than shedding ...
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• Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges

  
  MATADOR NINETY-FOUR — Authority: 125
    Powered by Max Banner Ads   Copenhagen is preparing for the climate change summit that will produce as much carbon dioxide as a town the size of MiddlesbroughOn a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the ...
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• Businesses back push for Copenhagen deal

  
  Number10.gov.uk Latest News — Authority: 533
  Hundreds of leading UK and international companies have joined the Prime Minister in calling for a fair and ambitious deal at the Copenhagen climate change conference. The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change presented Gordon Brown with a communiqué endorsed by more than 850 companies which ...
  5 days ago

• London Expands Scheme to Cut Carbon From Public Buildings

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  Hospitals, colleges and councils will be helped to cut energy use and save millions off their fuel bills under a major expansion of a climate change program announced today by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. Just days before the start of the Copenhagen climate change summit, the Mayor visited a London fire station ...
  6 days ago

• China keen on low-carbon economy

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 524
  | Sourced From News.xinhuanet.com | NANCHANG, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) — Beijing’s iconic Olympic venue –Bird’s Nest — might have been a little bit different from it is now if it were built today. “I would choose to use solar film to power air-conditioners in the Bird’s Nest instead of the current ...
  1 week ago

• President Obama to Attend Copenhagen Climate Talks

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 135
  barack_obama00001.jpg The White House announced that President Obama will travel to Copenhagen on December 9th to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference .
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• Is Growth with Equity getting old?

  
  From Poverty to Power by Duncan Green — Authority: 420
  Growth with Equity has been one of the development industry’s overarching economic narratives for over a decade (Oxfam published ‘ Economic Growth with Equity: Lessons from East Asia ’ in 1998). OK, it’s better than just ‘Growth’, and where it’s been achieved, it has an unrivalled impact on poverty, ...
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• Carbon credits could become hedge assets

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 524
  | Sourced From En.cop15.dk | While in the past carbon credit prices have been highly volatile, in a larger post-Copenhagen market the credits may be seen by investors as solid ground. During the next decade or two, the global market for carbon credits is likely to grow to three trillion US dollars, or twice the ...
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• Climategate: the Whitewash Begins

  
  MATADOR NINETY-FOUR — Authority: 125
    Powered by Max Banner Ads   It seems the AGW establishment has launched an urgent damage limitation exercise in order to whitewash the Climategate scandal in time for Copenhagen.Related posts: Climategate Exposes the Alarmist Machine Forecast: A cooling trend on climate change Dutch Environmental ...
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• Report: UK skills inadequate for low-carbon economy

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 524
  | Sourced From Businessgreen.com | The UK does not have the necessary skills to transition to a low-carbon economy without the help of foreign companies, according to a major new report from the Aldersgate Group to be released later today at an event in Westminster. The green business think-tank will warn that ...
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• Energy bill in Queen’s speech latest step to low-carbon economy in Britain

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 524
  | Sourced From Guardian.co.uk | The latest energy bill is designed to help the UK move towards a low-carbon economy. It includes a £9.5bn levy on electricity suppliers to fund four demonstration carbon capture and storage (CCS) coal power plants. The “CCS Incentive”, as the levy is known, was announced last ...
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• IBM To Invest In Chinas New Energy Industry

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 474
  Global IT giant IBM has turned its eyes to Chinas new-energy industry.IBM has signed a range of cooperation agreements with Chinas ENN Group. Under the agreement the two companies will set up a new-energy joint venture, which IBM calls one of its biggest business projects of the decadein China.The cooperation consists ...
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• Easing the transition to a low carbon economy

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 524
  | Sourced From Edie.net | Helping business move to a low carbon economy could be easier after the Government announced plans for a Forum for a Just Transition. Business minister Pat McFadden, today (November 16) announced the creation and first meeting of the forum at the TUC 21st Century Economy Conference. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• UK needs step change to become premier location for low carbon revolution – report

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 524
  | Sourced From Worksmanagement.co.uk | The UK needs to step up its efforts to become a premier location for low carbon industries if it is not to risk losing out on a slice of a £4.5 trillion business opportunity. This is the key message from a major report released today (16 November) examining how the UK rates ...
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• New Energy Bill Aims at Pushing UK Towards a Low Carbon Economy

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 140
  The latest energy bill that has just been announced aims at pushing the UK towards a more low carbon economy. This new energy bill includes a £9.5 billion levy on electricity suppliers to fund four demonstration carbon capture and storage coal power plants. The levy is known as the CCS Incentive, and it was announced ...
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• Mayor launches carbon cutting for 200,000 homes

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 524
  | Sourced From Thelondondailynews.com | An innovative scheme to cut energy from at least 200,000 homes in the capital by 2012, was kick started by the Mayor of London and London Councils today (Tuesday 10 November, 2009). Boris Johnson launched a series of trials to give up to 10,000 domestic properties a carbon ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nissan Leaf Gets Electric Vehicle Cost Structure Right

  
  NDN blogs — Authority: 133
  Related Programs Other Related Programs:  Creating a Low-Carbon Economy Electricity Network Green Project The New York Times   "Wheels" blog delivers some ...
  3 weeks ago

• European Union Must Re-build Its Leadership And Reshape Its Core Spending And Economic Policy

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  The European Union (EU) must re-build its leadership and reshape its core spending and economic policy to strengthen Europe’s ability to compete on a global scale, Lord Mandelson said today. He said the EU needed to “get real” about the need for a strong leadership and radical change in order to keep pace with ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hindering the low carbon economy

  
  Robert Kyriakides's Weblog — Authority: 128
  I listened to Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday. It is a ritual at which the leader of the opposition and other members of parliament ask the Prime Minister questions, which the Prime Minister usually fails to answer. Instead he uses the question as an opportunity to criticise opposition policies or statements by ...
  5 weeks ago

• Finland says aims to cut emissions 80 pct by 2050

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 524
  * 80 percent cut is Finland’s first fixed target to 2050 * Aim is part of “wider international effort” before accord HELSINKI, Oct 15 (Reuters) – Finland aims to cut greenhouse gases by 80 percent or more from 1990 levels by 2050, the government said on Thursday in a report outlining its long-term climate ...
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