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Norway's greenhouse gas emissions rise, despite promised cuts

2016-05-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: OSLO Norway's greenhouse gas emissions rose by 1.5 percent last year, lifted by the oil and gas sector and industry, making it harder for Oslo to keep promises of deep cuts to limit global warming, official data showed on Friday. Emissions rose to the equivalent of 53.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from 53.2 million in 2014, breaking several years of declines, and were above the 51.9 million in the benchmark year of 1990, preliminary Statistics Norway data showed. In the oil and gas sector,...

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