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Obama's New Clean Energy Goal For North America: 50 Percent By 2025
2016-06-28 11:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: President Obama and his counterparts from Canada and Mexico are preparing to unveil an ambitious new goal for generating carbon-free power when they meet this week in Ottawa. The three leaders are expected to set a target for North America to get 50 percent of its electricity from nonpolluting sources by 2025. That's up from about 37 percent last year. Aides acknowledge that's a "stretch goal," requiring commitments over and above what the three countries agreed to as part of the Paris climate...
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Leave vote makes UK's transition to clean energy harder, say experts
2016-06-28 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The UKs challenge to build a clean, secure and affordable energy system has become significantly harder amid the political and economic turmoil following the nations vote to leave the European Union. Higher customer bills and delayed or cancelled projects are expected by experts, the most pessimistic of whom warn of the lights going out. The optimists argue that the global rush towards clean energy and strong domestic UK climate change targets can keep the transition to clean, green energy moving...
US, Canada and Mexico pledge 50% of power from clean energy by 2025
2016-06-28 02:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Barack Obama, Justin Trudeau and Enrique Pea Nieto will commit to a new regional clean power goal at a summit this week in Ottawa, the White House has said. The leaders of the US, Canada and Mexico, meeting on Wednesday at the so-called Three Amigos summit, will pledge to have their countries produce 50% of their power by 2025 from hydropower, wind, solar and nuclear plants, carbon capture and storage, as well as from energy efficiency measures. We believe this is an aggressive goal, but...
Even Small Investments Clean Energy Could Save Millions Of Lives
2016-06-27 21:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: A new report from the International Energy Agency paints both a dreary and optimistic picture of the dangers of air pollution. On the one hand, air pollution is linked to an estimated 6.5 million deaths per year - a number that is expected to rise in coming decades. On the other hand, even small investments in technology could help curb the number of annual deaths attributed to air pollution. The IEA report looks at two main types of pollution: outdoor pollution, which kills an estimated 3 million,...
U.S., Mexico aim for more clean energy electricity by 2025
2016-06-27 21:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The leaders of the United States and Mexico this week plan to announce that half of their electricity will come from clean power sources by 2025, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp reported on Monday. U.S. President Barack Obama and his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto will meet in the Canadian capital Ottawa on Wednesday for a trilateral summit hosted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. A spokeswoman for Canadian Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said clean energy would be an important...
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