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French president heading to China to promote climate talks
2015-11-01 11:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: French President Francois Hollande hopes to use a state visit to China to boost difficult climate negotiations a month before a U.N. conference in Paris aimed at slowing global warming. China, the most populous country and the biggest emitter of climate-warming greenhouse gases in the world, has promised it will try to cap its rising emissions before 2030 as part of its national pledge ahead of the Paris conference. Hollande says he intends to launch a bilateral appeal with Chinese President...
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Coal not coming back, Appalachian Power president says
2015-10-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gazette-Mail: ROANOKE Coal consumption is not likely to increase, regardless of whether new federal regulations on power plants go into effect, and, from coals perspective, the national debate on coal and climate change has largely been lost, the president of West Virginias largest electric utility told a roomful of energy executives Tuesday. The Clean Power Plan, the Obama administrations proposal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, would cut coal consumption but even if the regulations...
Poland's president vetos amendment to Kyoto protocol on CO2 emissions
2015-10-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Poland's president has vetoed an amendment to the Kyoto protocol on CO2 emissions that extends the deadline for compliance because he believes the country needs more time to analyze its impact on the economy, his office said on Tuesday. The Kyoto protocol, signed in 1997, imposed on all signatory countries an obligation to cut their carbon dioxide emissions by at least 5 percent in the period 2008-2012 versus 1990. The 2012 Doha amendment extended the deadline by 2020. Poland has already...
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BSA elects Tim Breen as President.
2015-10-28 13:31:09| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Bearing Specialists Association has elected Tim Breen, Motion Industries, Inc., as President for 2015–2016. Reporting on BSA’s recent Distributor Survey, Breen told attendees at the 2015 Annual Convention that the results reveal 2014 aggregate bearing sales volume for participating distributors was $2,840,000,000. This represents an increase of 3.3% over the 2013 volume of $2,750,000,000. In addition, participant estimates indicate that 2015 will continue this trend with a gain of 8% over 2014.
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Polish president says won't ratify carbon-cutting pact
2015-10-27 17:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Poland's new conservative president on Tuesday refused to endorse an amendment to the United Nations' Kyoto carbon-cutting pact that would require the coal-dependent EU country to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Greenpeace Poland on Tuesday called the decision a "bad sign" a month ahead of the UN's landmark climate summit in Paris, saying it could delay the EU's compliance with further emissions reductions or even trigger a "stalemate on decision-making" in the 28-member bloc. But...
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