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U.S., Mexico to source 50% of electricity from clean energy by 2025
2016-06-27 20:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: The United States and Mexico will announce that 50 per cent of their electricity will come from clean power sources by 2025 at the Three Amigos summit in Ottawa this week. Sources told CBC News the announcement will underscore the emphasis the three North American leaders will place on using the already integrated economic relationship to harmonize environmental policies. The 2025 targets are ambitious for the two countries. Currently only about 13 per cent of U.S. electricity comes from hydroelectricity...
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Will election see parties reach a consensus on climate, clean energy?
2016-06-27 00:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Renew Economy: Irrespective of who wins the next election, the 2016-19 parliament will play a key role in shaping Australias long-term climate policy framework, with policymakers likely to work towards a bi-partisan policy framework prior to the conclusion of the Kyoto Protocol in 2020 in order to provide greater policy certainty going into the post-2020 period. While bi-partisanship rarely means agreement on all policy levers, consensus on key structural design factors such as the mechanism itself (ETS or...
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What we can learn about clean energy from our Pacific neighbors
2016-06-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
GreenBiz: Hawaiis bold bid to move entirely to renewable energy by 2045 seems even bolder when you consider that many of the strategies being embraced by the U.S. mainland wont necessarily work that well for the 136-island state. (Yes, there are that many, although only eight of them are inhabited.) Geographically speaking, Hawaii has far more in common with many island nations scattered to its west throughout the Pacific places like Japans Okinawa islands or the Fiji archipelago. Even countries like...
Indias Unprecedented Plan To Bring Millions Out Of Poverty And Power Them With Clean Energy
2016-06-26 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Three years ago, Tarabhai Lakshmi Koli, 43, her construction worker husband, and their two grown sons, moved into their first real house in Siddapurwadi, a rural remote hamlet of 500 households in southern India, about 370 miles from Bangalore. But it lacked one important necessity: electricity. For Koli and many others who live in distant areas of India, reliable energy often has been an unattainable luxury. Living without power makes it difficult to cook, to work, to read and study, and to stay...
Lead Counsel for PSC in the VW Clean Diesel litigation offers statement on impending settlement
2016-06-24 10:56:02| Green Car Congress
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