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Alex Salmond says renewables will help beat the recession
Aberdeen :: United Kingdom | over 2 years ago
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He also said Scotland's world-leading expertise and experience in financial services could help to fuel "green" growth during a speech in Aberdeen...An estimated 60,000 green jobs could be created by 2020 in low carbon industries and businesses
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75 months and counting ... | Andrew Simms
Karāchi :: Pakistan | over 2 years ago
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Quarter of the way in, we are perhaps further from holding back the warming tide than when we began. But there is still time Twenty five months ago, working with my colleague, a climate scientist, Dr Victoria Johnson, and others, I decided to find
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Campaigners are switched on to change Victoria's lightbulbs
Mildura :: Australia | over 2 years ago
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Ken Irwin HOW many levels of government does it take to change 330,000 lightbulbs? All three, according to the Municipal Association of Victoria. In a bid to reduce emissions and councils' electricity bills, the MAV wants the state and federal
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Low-carbon card holders can skip lines
Shanghai :: China | over 2 years ago
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Along with Dutch Pavilion and "We Are the World" Pavilion, which promotes green energy, Luxembourg Pavilion and Finland Pavilion will let card holders to skip waiting line from August 22 to 28. The card is called "low-carbon" because each card
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Carbon manager CADmeleon launches online software spin-off
Carbón :: Mexico | almost 3 years ago
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CADmeleon has launched a company to commercialise its online software product as it prepares to sign a deal with Scottish and Southern Energy. Bernard McKeown, managing director of CADmeleon, said the joint venture deal due to be agreed with SSE will
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China plans to start trading carbon within five years
Shanghai :: China | almost 3 years ago
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Officials have reached consensus on the need for carbon trading as a way to help China meet its target to improve energy efficiency by 2020, but there is still no agreement on the mechanism that should be used, the paper said...Efforts to hit that
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Low Carbon Public Transport gets Government Support
Britain's Transport Minister, Norman Baker, has announced £15m of additional Government funding to pay for over 150 new low carbon buses, which will join fleets throughout England saving around 50,000 tonnes of CO2. The&
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Chris Huhne and Vince Cable: The green economy is still viable
Derby :: United Kingdom | almost 3 years ago
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The coalition Government's emergency Budget began to stabilise the public finances and lay the foundations for economic recovery. The next step is to ensure that what emerges from recession is a different kind of economy: rebalanced away from
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India offers equity principle meet in run up to Cancun
Mumbai :: India | almost 3 years ago
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In the run up to the Cancun summit on climate change in December, India has offered to hold an international conference to deliberate the issue of principle of cumulative per capita emissions being embedded in the draft of the long-term deal. India
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China keeps promise to curb carbon emission
Nanjing :: China | almost 3 years ago
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Although it is not an easy task, China strives to put into practice the promise made last November before the Copenhagen Conference -- to cut its carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product by 40 to 45 percent by 2020 compared with
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