News tagged with climate treaty

Afforestation will hardly dent warming problem: study

Schemes to convert croplands or marginal lands to forests will make almost no inroads against global warming this century, a scientific study published on Sunday said.

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created Jun 19, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 15

US sets new carbon standard for power plants

The United States said Tuesday it was setting the first national standards on carbon emissions from power plants, taking aim at the burning of coal which is considered a top culprit in climate change.

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Climate scientists uncover major accounting flaw in Kyoto Protocol, other climate legislation

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of 13 prominent scientists and land-use experts has identified an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules for bioenergy that could, if uncorrected, undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse ...

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created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Obama to launch clean energy initiative in India

US President Barack Obama and India are expected to launch a joint initiative on clean energy, eyeing economic opportunities in an area that has long divided the two countries.

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created Nov 05, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Canada formally withdraws from Kyoto Protocol (Update)

Canada became the first country to formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, saying the pact on cutting carbon emissions was preventing the world from effectively tackling climate change.

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created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 51

Canada's Kyoto withdrawal under fire from China

Canada's historic decision to withdraw from the Kyoto protocol provoked heavy criticism from China on Tuesday, with Beijing saying the move went against international efforts to combat climate change. ...

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created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 103

Climate: Copenhagen pledges set Earth for +3 C warming - study

Carbon-curbing pledges under the Copenhagen Accord are likely to doom Earth to warming of three degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) or more, compared to the deal's target of 2 C (3.6 F), scientists said ...

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created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Nations to seek clean energy cooperation

The world's top economies will look next week at ways to work together on clean energy, striking a rare note of cooperation amid an impasse in drafting a new climate change treaty.

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Scientist: Leak of climate e-mails appalling

(AP) -- A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online said Sunday the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month's ...

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created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (21) | comments 35

Acid oceans: the 'evil twin' of climate change

(AP) -- Far from Copenhagen's turbulent climate talks, the sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters reposing along the shoreline and kelp forests of this protected marine area stand to gain from any global ...

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created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (21) | comments 28

Study says businesses can create clean energy jobs

(AP) -- The organizers of a global business summit on climate change say millions of new jobs would be created in the U.S. alone by relying almost entirely on renewable or low-carbon sources of electricity.

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created May 25, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Canada withdrawal from Kyoto is 'bad news': France

Canada's decision to withdraw from the Kyoto protocol is "bad news" for global efforts against climate change, the French foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

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US supports reducing climate-warming gases

(AP) -- The Obama administration called hydrofluorocarbons widely used in refrigerators and air conditioners "a very significant" threat to climate change Monday, and expressed a preference for drastically ...

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created May 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 4

Biggest economies try again to strike climate deal

(AP) -- The world's 17 biggest and most polluting nations meet in London on Sunday in an attempt to break a deadlock on financing efforts to contain climate change and reducing harmful gases causing global warming.

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UN climate meeting OKs Green Fund in new accord

(AP) -- A U.N. conference on Saturday adopted a modest climate deal creating a fund to help the developing world go green, though it deferred for another year the tough work of carving out deeper reductions ...

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created Dec 11, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 2