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Brazil's Rousseff pledges 37% cut in greenhouse gas emissions
2015-09-27 16:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff on Sunday promised big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. Using 2005 as the baseline level, the reduction target will be 37 percent over the next decade and 43 percent by 2030, she said at a United Nations sustainable development conference. Brazil will take this pledge to the major UN climate conference that will be held in Paris in December, where the goal is for countries to strike a binding, global agreement on how to curb climate change. Specifically,...
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Brazil pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions
2015-09-27 15:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Brazil on Sunday became the first major developing country to pledge an absolute reduction in greenhouse gas emissions for an envisioned global pact against climate change. The world's seventh biggest greenhouse gas polluter said it would cut its emissions by 37 percent by 2025 from 2005 levels by reducing deforestation and boosting the share of renewable sources in its energy mix. It also indicated an "intended reduction" of 43 percent by 2030. "Our goals are just as ambitious, if not more so,...
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Pro oil and gas groups sprout from neighborhoods to spread education on the industry
2015-09-27 08:41:29| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
While debates over the safety and benefits of fracking continue to heat up in Colorado, a cadre of grassroots citizen groups in support of the oil and gas industry has sprouted up in northern Colorado. Amid the he-said/she-said, point-counterpoint debates related to scientific studies and empirical proof, these pro-industry groups are focusing on educating the public to the benefits of locally produced oil and gas.
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Star Gas Partners, L.P. Announces That Teamsters Ratify New NETTI Agreement
2015-09-26 21:02:34| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
25, 2015 -- Star Gas Partners, L.P. , a home energy distributor and services provider, today announced that the Teamsters have ratified an agreement among certain Star subsidiaries and the New England Teamsters and Trucking Industry Pension Fund , a multiemployer pension plan in which such Star subsidiaries participate, providing for Star's participating subsidiaries to withdraw from the NETTI Fund's original employer pool and enter the NETTI Fund's new employer pool. The withdrawal from the original employer pool triggered an undiscounted withdrawal liability of $48.0 million that is to be paid in equal monthly installments over 30 years, or $1.6 million per year.
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Cutting greenhouse gas emissions won't slow global economic growth report
2015-09-26 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As the world works out how to avoid catastrophic climate change, one of the biggest questions remaining is whether we can continue to grow economically without also increasing greenhouse gas emissions. New research released this week at Climate Week NYC offers more hope that the answer might be yes. Prepared for green thinktank Heinrich Böll by DIW Econ, a German institute for economic research, the study found that, as a whole, countries that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation...
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