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New hope for the climate with US/China agreement?
2013-06-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: One of the great stumbling blocks of climate talks in the last 15 years has been that America refuses to move to cut emissions of greenhouse gases until China does but at the weekend leaders of the worlds two great polluters reached agreement to phase out one of the most potent of them hydrofluorocarbons (HCFs). It was heralded as a great breakthrough, and if it works it will seriously improve the chances of the world avoiding dangerous climate change. But curiously the phasing out of HCFs...
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U.S.-China climate deal called "breakthrough" but no long-term cuts yet
2013-06-11 23:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China and the United States took a major step in the fight against climate change over the weekend, but what was termed a "breakthrough" might not do much in the longer term to lock in legally binding carbon emission cuts from the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. Still, environmental groups and some U.S. and global policymakers said the agreement could give fresh momentum to the United Nations' arduous process of finalizing a global treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol on climate...
Cybersecurity Tops the Agenda in U.S.-China Weekend Talks
2013-06-10 20:54:30| TechNewsWorld
Among the issues on the agenda for the talks over the weekend between China's President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Obama were cybersecurity and attacks on U.S. targets by hackers based in China. "The technical means to validate true reduction in cyberoffense are not very good since the advantage belongs overwhelmingly to the attacker in cyberspace," noted FireEye CTO Ashar Aziz.
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US-China Flight Diverted After Woman Attempts Suicide In United Airlines Plane Bathroom
2013-05-30 17:56:35| Airlines - Topix.net
A United Airlines traveling from Chicago to Beijing was forced to make surprise landing in Alaska earlier this week after a female passenger reportedly tried to commit suicide inside of the plane's bathroom.
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Hope for US-China collaboration on climate change, clean energy
2013-04-26 18:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: A few weeks ago, Secretary of State John Kerry went to Beijing to meet with the leadership of the Chinese government. This meeting was mostly noted in the press as an effort to defuse tensions in the ongoing crisis over North Korea and clearly that was important; there has been a notable ratcheting down of tensions since then. However, over the long term, there was an agreement that came out of the meeting that could be much more important to the worlds future stability and security a joint...
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