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Beijing slashes car sales quota in anti-pollution drive

2013-11-05 10:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: China's capital, Beijing, infamous for its thick smog and heavy traffic, will slash the city's new car sales quotas by almost 40 percent next year, as it looks to curb vehicle emissions and hazardous levels of pollution, the city government website said. The change in policy gives greater support for new, cleaner cars and could strengthen foreign carmakers' determination to accelerate growth in China's less crowded lower-tier cities. In the last month alone, high levels of pollution have forced...

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Phelan airs sugar quota disappointment

2013-10-15 08:11:24| Sugar Industry News

Ann Phelan TD, has outlined her disappointment that the abolishment of sugar quotas will not take place until 2017, despite renewed efforts to re-develop the sugar beet industry in Carlow.

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UN Carbon Has Biggest Jump Since 2011 as EU Factories Tap Quota

2013-05-10 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: United Nations Certified Emission Reduction credits had their biggest one-day gain since Dec. 20, 2011 amid speculation factories and utilities are using the carbon offsets to meet European Union pollution targets. CERs for December rose 18 percent to close at 40 euro cents ($0.52) a metric ton on the ICE Futures Europe exchange in London. The contract has jumped 33 percent since May 3 and is heading for its biggest-ever weekly increase. Factories, power stations and airlines in the EU carbon...

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Northern Water board sets 60 percent quota for C-BT Project

2013-04-13 21:23:56| Agriculture - Topix.net

The water quota for the Colorado-Big Thompson Project was set at 60 percent. Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District board members said they set the quota at that mark to meet the water demands of the local agriculture industry and cities but also reserve at least some of its limited water in storage for the future.

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