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United Kingdom: Davey urges Lib Dems to honour decarbonisation target deal
2013-03-06 14:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Ed Davey has today warned that it would be wrong of his Lib Dem colleagues to reject an agreement brokered between the two coalition parties and vote for a cross-party amendment that would force the government to introduce a decarbonisation target for the power sector from next year. Responding to questions at an event hosted by The Building Centre in London, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary said he had sympathy for the amendment that has been tabled by Conservative MP Tim Yeo and Labour's...
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World Bank Urges African Agriculture Rethink
2013-03-06 03:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: - The World Bank is urging African governments to retool their agriculture policies, particularly to include a far greater focus on agribusiness as a critical driver of future development. The bank is now projecting that African agriculture could triple in economic size in coming years, topping a trillion dollars by 2030, powered by massively increasing domestic and international demand. With Africa by some counts the world's fastest-growing economy, middle-class demand for food is set to quadruple...
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Canadian Pacific urges the City of Montreal to consider alternatives...
2013-03-01 11:03:31| Railroads - Topix.net
Crossing safety is a key aspect of this commitment. CP reviewed this request in great detail with consultation of rail safety experts and has concluded that it cannot approve the construction of at-grade pedestrian crossings in these corridors owing to operational imperatives and public safety concerns.
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Shale gas lobbyist urges UK companies to publicly disclose use of all chemicals
2013-02-28 18:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A revamped lobby group for the British shale gas industry has responded to concerns over controversial drilling techniques by drawing up a set of guidelines encouraging companies to disclose all the chemicals they use in the fracking of wells. The United Kingdom Onshore Operators Group (UKOOG) admits the rules are not binding but should act as a measure of "good practice" for explorers who have just had a fracking moratorium lifted by government, despite protests from the environmental movement....
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Zuck Urges Kids to Code; Instagram Passes 100M Users; Google+ Sign in Now Available
2013-02-27 18:35:52| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
From Code.org's new campaign to promote coding to Instagram's latest milestone, here's what you missed yesterday.
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