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Tories push for climate change action abroad but back fossil fuels at home
2015-11-13 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Perhaps its being forced to think about global matters and the dangers they pose, but the UKs foreign secretary Philip Hammond, like his Conservative predecessor, both understands the risks of climate change and the urgent need to act. In a powerful speechthis week, he said: Taking action to combat climate change is the right thing to do - the conservative thing to do. Hammond had deliberately picked a tough crowd: the American Enterprise Institute, the free-marketeers who have for years have...
Joule and Red Rock Biofuels intend to merge; solar fuels plus biomass F-T
2015-11-12 22:55:30| Green Car Congress
Ryder to fuel natural gas fleets in California with 100% biomethane from Clean Energy Fuels
2015-11-12 16:55:32| Green Car Congress
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G20 nations spend $452 bn a year supporting fossil fuels: study
2015-11-12 15:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The G20 group of major economies spend $452 billion per year supporting fossil fuel industries, despite their primary role in causing climate change, according to a study released on Thursday. The report, which comes ahead of a crunch UN meeting in Paris to try to forge a global deal to avoid disastrous levels of climate change in December, accused governments of undermining their own climate change policies. "G20 governments are handing out approximately $452 billion a year to prop up the production...
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Worlds Biggest Economies Still Backing Fossil Fuels
2015-11-12 14:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: The governments of the worlds major industrialized countries, the G20 group, are providing more than US$450 billion a year to support the production of fossil fuels. That is almost four times the entire worlds subsidies to the rapidly growing renewable energy sector, as the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates total global renewables subsidies in 2013 at $121bn. The G20 group agreed in 2009 to phase out fossil fuel subsidies in the medium term, a pledge that was repeated at its 2014...
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