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An attempt to escape perpetual failure on climate change at the G20
2013-09-10 01:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Our expectations were all out of whack on climate change. For years, environmentalists and world leaders promised a big bang international agreement, a comprehensive, world-wide plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to which pretty much every nation on the planet would be a willing party. A global problem, after all, requires a global solution. But decades of work has merely resulted in soft promises from some nations to reduce their emissions, a nominal commitment to enforce an international...
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G20 to share tax information by 2015
2013-09-06 19:51:16| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
G20 members say they expect to begin automatically sharing tax information by the end of 2015, in an effort to curb tax evasion.
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G20 countries agree to phase down potent greenhouse gas
2013-09-06 19:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Leaders attending the Group of 20 summit of the world's biggest economies in St. Petersburg, Russia, agreed on Friday to phase down the use of certain potent greenhouse gases known to damage the climate. The White House cited the agreement to cooperate on phasing down the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), gases used in refrigerators, air conditioners and some industrial equipment, as one of the "most significant agreements" of the summit. "This commitment marks an important step forward toward...
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US, China, and G-20 agree to work to global phase down of HFCs
2013-09-06 19:30:26| Green Car Congress
G-20 to Phase Out Super Greenhouse Gas, Fossil Fuel Subsidies
2013-09-06 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Transcending their disagreements over Syrian chemical weapons, the G-20 leaders managed to reach agreement on confronting climate change in two ways. They will phase down refrigerant greenhouse gases and phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. In the St. Petersburg Declaration released today at the close of the summit, the G-20 leaders state, "Climate change will continue to have a significant impact on the world economy, and cost will be higher to the extent we delay additional actions."...
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