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Obama: Climate plan will help US negotiate with China, India
2014-01-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Journal: President Obama is under no illusion that U.S. climate policies alone can rein in global warming. In newly published comments in The New Yorker, Obama says they're crucial to working with China and India, the world's largest and third-largest greenhouse-gas emitters (the U.S. is No. 2). "This is why I'm putting a big priority on our carbon action plan here. It's not because I'm ignorant of the fact that these emerging countries are going to be a bigger problem than us. It's because it's very hard...
Obama Releases Plan Outlining 17% Decrease in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
2013-09-28 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: After repeatedly stating that a 17 percent reduction in overall greenhouse gas emissions compared to 2005 levels is still in reach, the Obama administration released a 30-page draft report Thursday detailing exactly how it plans on going about this. The report lays out in greater detail the climate action plan President Barack Obama announced in June, and includes carbon limits on both new and existing power plants in addition to stricter energy efficiency standards, among other things. Policies...
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Obama climate plan gets first airing in Congress
2013-09-18 20:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Obama administration asserted its authority to move forward on its climate change action plan on Wednesday with or without new laws from Congress. In the first airing of Obama's climate plan, a hearing of the House of Representatives was told the Environmental Protection Agency and other government agencies were already authorised to bring in new measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. "We are not doing anything at the EPA and in the climate plan that goes outside the boundaries...
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Harper offers Obama climate plan to win Keystone approval
2013-09-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Prime Minister Stephen Harper has sent a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama formally proposing "joint action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the oil and gas sector," if that is what's needed to gain approval of the Keystone XL pipeline through America's heartland, CBC News has learned. Sources told CBC News the prime minister is willing to accept targets proposed by the United States for reducing the climate-changing emissions and is prepared to work in concert with Obama to provide whatever...
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President Obama Announces $7-billion Power Africa Plan
2013-07-30 14:54:54| ENR.com: Headline News
New White House initiative will bring public and private funds as well as technical support to double access to power in sub-Saharan Africa over five years.
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