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Whither Kyoto Protocol?
2013-08-26 10:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Herald: THE amount of effort employed by developed countries over many years in resisting the mandatory Kyoto Protocol provisions for limiting emissions prompts a change of attitude from Africa and the rest of the developing world in their approach to multilateral climate talks. Kyoto's current tenets forcing only Annex 1 countries (selected developed nations) to reduce emissions have not been effective in tackling climate change, and actually risked failure at the Copenhagen talks in 2009. It is now clear...
Climate Change: Russia Is Steamed About U.N's Kyoto Carbon Credit COP-Out
2013-06-23 08:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: Representatives of Russia and other Eastern bloc countries at the recent climate talks in Bonn made it clear that they arent one bit happy about efforts within the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Changes Conference of Parties (COP) to cap their free Soviet-era carbon credit trading green stamps previously gifted to them under the Kyoto Protocol. The original deal was that signatory nations that reduced carbon emissions by targeted amounts under their 1990 levels would be able to sell credits...
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John Kerrys misfire on U.S. performance on Kyoto emissions targets
2013-05-30 05:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: "We are below the Kyoto levels now. We are below the Waxman-Markey levels. ...We are doing things but nobody is doing enough.' -- Secretary of State John F. Kerry, remarks at Youth Connect with BBC's Hardtalk, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 26, 2013 "The United States of America today is below Kyoto levels in emissions. People don't know that. The United States today is actually below the Waxman-Markey legislation mandates that didn't pass. So we're doing things -- automobile efficiency, standards,...
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AMDs Kyoto: Kabini gives AMD the advantage over Intel in low-power servers for now
2013-05-29 13:06:33| Extremetech
AMD's new low-power Kabini APU is making a play for cloud computing and server workloads as well. The new Kyoto Opteron will be the first server APU AMD has ever built, and is aimed at low-power cloud workloads that could benefit from OpenCL acceleration.
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EU calms Kyoto Protocol ratification storm
2013-05-04 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: The European Union has moved to assure nations taking part at the UN climate negotiations that the second period of the Kyoto Protocol (CP2) will be ratified by member states in 2013. A number of nations linked to the G77 raised concerns over the lack of ratification during talks taking place in Bonn this week. Ecuador negotiator Daniel Ortega told RTCC slow progress on making CP2 law in countries that signed up in 2012 was a major concern and blocking negotiations. But addressing delegates...
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