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Paris climate deal hinges on better carbon accountancy
2016-01-27 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature: Indonesias Central Kalimantan province, a lightly populated swathe of Borneo, is a hotbed for greenhouse gases that are emitted through deforestation, family farming and industrial palm-oil production. Last year, these activities fuelled devastating fires that torched more than 400,000 hectares in the province and at least 2.5 million hectares across the developing nation. By some estimates, the fires released into the atmosphere more than twice as much carbon as Germany emits in a year. Calculating...
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Future of New York City mass transit hinges on funding fight
2015-10-10 05:48:50| Railroads - Topix.net
In this Feb. 5, 2013, file photo, rush hour commuters crowd a subway platform at the Woodside station in Queens, N.Y. The station is a transfer point for passengers traveling on the Long Island Rail Road and going to Manhattan's East Side. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has about a $29 billion modernization plan that would add high-tech control systems, replace old subway cars and buses and expand service on North America's largest transit system.
Future of New York City mass transit hinges on funding fight
2015-10-10 05:48:49| Railroads - Topix.net
In this Feb. 5, 2013, file photo, rush hour commuters crowd a subway platform at the Woodside station in Queens, N.Y. The station is a transfer point for passengers traveling on the Long Island Rail Road and going to Manhattan's East Side. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has about a $29 billion modernization plan that would add high-tech control systems, replace old subway cars and buses and expand service on North America's largest transit system.
Philippines emissions target hinges loss and damage
2015-10-01 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The Philippines will cut greenhouse gas emissions 70% from forecast levels in 2030, it pledged on Thursday. That target depends on international support, Manila wrote in its "intended nationally determined contribution" (INDC) towards a UN deal. In particular, wealthy countries must pay for loss and damage resulting from climate-related events like cyclones and sea-level rise, it hinted. The Philippine INDC assumes that Loss-and-Damages from climate change and extreme events will not require...
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Future deployment of distributed solar hinges on electricity rate design
2015-07-09 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Future distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment levels are highly sensitive to retail electricity rate design, according to a newly released report by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The study also explores the feedback effects between retail electricity rates and PV deployment, and suggests that increased solar deployment can lead to changes in PV compensation levels that either accelerate or dampen further deployment....
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