"This vote confirms the European Parliament's commitment to basing Europe's future on renewable energy and sends a very strong message to both the European Commission, currently consulting on a 2030 framework for energy and climate policies, and to ...
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2013-05-21 06:52:14
Concerns continue to grow about the effects of climate change on fire. Wildfires are expected to increase 50 percent across the United States under a changing climate, over 100 percent in areas of the West by 2050 as projected by some studies. Of equal concern to scientists and policymakers alike are the atmospheric effects of wildfire emissions on climate
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2013-05-21 14:15:15
NIGHTS are cooler, and we’re regularly getting the evening showers. This means, the hot summer is almost over, and with it, floods, landslides and just about every calamity that we have become very familiar with. According to the United Nations University (UNU), Philippines ranks third among the countries most vulnerable to climate change and disasters caused by natural hazards
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2013-05-21 10:30:07
Big money steps in against King Island wind farm. Andrew Crook 3 hours ago. Climate · Wind power. The battle over wind turbines on King Island is heating up, with blue chip Sydney PR players summoned to help the No TasWind Farm Group run the project ...
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2013-05-20 17:39:07
The 20-megawatt Maibarara geothermal project has successfully secured registration as a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) venture sanctioned under the Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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2013-05-20 16:15:14
A book refuting climate change has been mailed to the homes of House members in recent weeks, along with a letter promoting the materials signed by House Speaker Pro Tem Peggy Mast, R-Emporia.
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2013-05-20 14:12:19
(Phys.org) —What happened the last time a vegetated Earth shifted from an extremely cold climate to desert-like conditions? And what does it tell us about climate change today?
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2013-05-20 05:33:19
Solar accelerates its wind chase. Gerard Wynn 6 hours ago. Climate · Renewable energy · Solar energy · Wind power. Solar is rapidly closing the gap in the full cost of power generation with wind power, with major implications for both sectors.
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2013-05-19 17:35:36
Understanding climate change in the investment context largely involves adjusting risk assessments, but there are also many opportunities to invest in solution providers.
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2013-05-19 09:18:05
The President, in the budget proposal for fiscal year 2014 he recently released, would give Moniz a solid start in advancing the low-carbon economy, by increasing DOE funding for renewable energy, advanced vehicle research and development, and energy ...
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2013-05-18 12:19:29
Former senior official John Ashton attacks government for 'spooking potential investors' in energy infrastructureThe number of people employed by the government to work on the UK's adaptation to the effects of climate change has been cut from 38 officials to only six, in a sign of how the response to global warming has been rapidly downgraded within Whitehall under the coalition
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2013-05-17 10:54:01
With dire warnings likely to match or exceed the worst fears about the effects of global warming, environment and development experts gathered today at United Nations Headquarters to debate the twin challenge of curbing climate change while sustaining ...
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2013-05-16 18:23:32
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's Aker Solutions has won a contract to make the world's first tests for capturing emissions of carbon dioxide from cement factories as part of efforts to slow climate change, the company said on Thursday.
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2013-05-16 10:57:53
From a price of €171.9 per megawatt hour (MWh) back in August of 2012, the Greek Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change (YPEKA) announced this past Friday that they will be cutting the feed-in tariff price down to €95 per MWh of generated ...
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2013-05-16 02:09:16