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Cut carbon emissions by 40% in 16 years, Ed Davey tells EU
2014-01-17 20:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Ed Davey, the energy secretary, has called on EU heads of state to endorse a target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030, but reject a specific binding renewables target. The Europen Commission is due to issue a paper next Wednesday that is likely propose a EU-wide renewables target in line with the wishes of Germany and France, but Davey, in a Guardian interview, claimed his call not to impose a binding renewables target was gaining traction. He wants EU states to have flexibility...
EU could cut emissions 40 percent at moderate cost
2014-01-17 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: EU could cut emissions by 40 percent at moderate cost: This is a key finding from an international multi-model analysis by the Stanford Energy Modeling Forum (EMF28) and comes at a crucial time, as the European Commission is set to announce next week its plans whether to scale up its efforts on emissions reduction in the next decade. However, beyond 2040, according to the scientists the costs risk to rise substantially. Technological innovation would be needed to counter this. "In the next two decades,...
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CO2 Emissions: Cleaner Vans By 2020
2014-01-17 04:47:04| pollutiononline News Articles
The CO2 emission limit for new light commercial vehicles sold in the EU is to be reduced from 203 g/km today to 147 g/km by 2020, under draft legislation approved by the European Parliament on Tuesday
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BP study predicts greenhouse emissions ise by almost a third in 20 years
2014-01-15 21:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Global greenhouse gas emissions are set to rise by nearly a third in the next two decades, putting hopes of curtailing dangerous climate change beyond reach, a new report by BP has found. The drastic rise in emissions, despite international efforts to cut carbon, will come despite the predicted enormous growth in the use of shale gas, according to the oil and gas giant. Shale gas previously inaccessible because the exploitation of these resources requires technology only recently perfected...
Comprehensive modeling study finds electric drive vehicle deployment has little observed effect on US system-wide emissions
2014-01-15 21:30:19| Green Car Congress
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