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Carbon pricing needed to control airline CO2 emissions: study
2013-03-04 10:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Aviation pollution can only be stabilized by the middle of the century if a price is set on airline carbon emissions, research said, countering industry hopes that green goals can be met via technology improvements and biofuels. A European Union scheme to force airlines using EU airports to pay for their carbon emissions caused an international outcry, forcing the European Commission to propose a year-long freeze of its law. As an alternative to the EU scheme, U.N. body the International Civil...
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EUs Attempt to Curb Carbon Emissions Limps On
2013-02-23 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: The European Union's failing carbon market has been thrown a lifeline by the European Parliament's Environment Committee. It has backed the Commission's plan to prop up the price of a ton of carbon by withdrawing an oversupply of credits from the market. Carbon trading is one of the major EU policies designed to combat climate change. But a combination of successful lobbying by industry bodies, political interference and lack of economic growth has brought the scheme close to collapse, so that...
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Question Mark: Baby Boomers Produce Highest Carbon Emissions
2013-02-15 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: You may not carry a laptop case made out of recycled fixed-gear bicycle tires. And it has probably been a while since you used yak dung to heat your home. But, hey, youre an environmentalist. At least, thats what you and your fellow boomers tell those pollsters whenever they ask. So why is your carbon footprint bigger than the footprint of the T. rex that turned into the oil youre using in your Prius? When researchers tried to calculate carbon dioxide emissions by age group in the United States,...
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Will Nations Embrace Opportunity to Reduce Black Carbon Emissions and Slow Arctic Warming?
2013-02-05 22:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Arctic nations have an extraordinary opportunity to show global leadership to slow regional warming and melting by embracing a proposal to launch talks on an agreement to reduce emissions of the climate pollutant black carbon. Arctic environment ministers have the power to send a strong signal to the Arctic Council when they gather Feb. 5 and Feb. 6 in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden--only the second time ever--acknowledging black carbon reductions as a priority for regional environmental protection. The...
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U.S. Carbon Emissions Fall to Lowest Level Since 1994
2013-02-01 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The continuing expansion of renewable energy technologies, advances in energy efficiency, and the rapid shift from coal to natural gas for generating electricity combined to bring down U.S. carbon dioxide emissions last year to their lowest levels since 1994, according to a report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The report said that CO2 emissions fell 13 percent in the last five years alone, which means that the U.S. is now more than halfway toward reaching President Obamas goal of cutting emissions...
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