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BBC News
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EU ministers have agreed to impose carbon emissions quotas on airlines in an attempt to fight climate change.
The Environment Commissioner, Stavros Dimas, said a strong signal had to be sent, although MEPs had wanted carriers to be included in the EU e..
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BBC News
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California is suing the US federal government over its failure to back the state's tough new anti-pollution laws regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
Two years ago, California passed legislation requiring car-makers to cut vehicle emissions by 30% by 2..
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ABC News
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Even "moderate additional" greenhouse emissions are likely to push Earth past "critical tipping points" with "dangerous consequences for the planet," according to research conducted by NASA and the Columbia University Earth Institute.
With just 10 more..
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CNN
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New York City produces almost 1 percent of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions -- an amount that puts it on par with Ireland or Portugal -- according to a city study.
The study, released Tuesday, was ordered by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to assess the c..
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BBC News
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The UK's carbon emissions rose by 1.25% last year, according to provisional government data, but Britain remains on course to meet its Kyoto Protocol goal.
The main reason was a move from gas to coal for electricity generation.
Emissions of all gree..
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New York Times
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Hollywood has a thing for Al Gore and his three-alarm film on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” which won an Academy Award for best documentary. So do many environmentalists, who praise him as a visionary, and many scientists, who laud him for..
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www.energystar.gov
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If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR, we would save enough energy to light more than 2.5 million homes for a year and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of nearly 800,000 cars...
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New York Times
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Scientists from across the world gathered Monday to hammer out the final details of an authoritative report on climate change that is expected to project centuries of rising temperatures and sea levels unless there are curbs in emissions of carbon dioxide..
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Independent
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Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow...
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BBC News
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Progress towards developing a global strategy to cut emissions is too slow, according to environmental group WWF.
It issued its warning at the end of key UN talks that considered what measures should replace the current set of climate targets, which ex..
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BBC News
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The government should go ahead with a system of personal "carbon credits" to meet emissions targets, MPs have said.
The Environmental Audit Committee said the scheme would be more effective than taxes for cutting carbon emissions.
Under the scheme p..
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BBC News
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Carbon dioxide emissions from Europe's heavy industry sectors rose by 1.1% in 2007, say carbon market analysts.
The estimate is based on initial data from the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which includes more than 10,000 large industrial plants...
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MSNBC
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While natural cycles remove roughly half of human-emitted carbon dioxide from the atmosphere within a hundred years, a significant portion persists for thousands of years. Some of this carbon triggers deep-sea warming, which keeps raising the global avera..
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BBC News
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The UK needs a "modal shift" from road to rail if greenhouse gas emissions from transport are to be curbed, a report concludes.
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) says changes are needed to government policies on transport pricing, energy..
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BBC News
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The UK's carbon emissions fell by just 0.1% last year, and the government has admitted it must do more to tackle climate change.
The figures would have been worse if the UK's share of pollution from global flights and shipping had been included.
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BBC News
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Trade unions and business leaders say EU plans to cut carbon emissions could harm European jobs and industry.
The European Trade Union Confederation fears up to 50,000 steelworkers' jobs could go if their industry moves to areas with lower costs for po..
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BBC News
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Developing countries will need targets for greenhouse gas emissions, Britain's Trade and Development Minister Gareth Thomas has said.
Rich nations had to lead emissions cuts, he said, but developing countries such as China should have targets too.
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BBC News
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Gordon Brown is due to give his first major speech on the environment, raising the prospect of tougher domestic targets on carbon emissions.
He will say action on climate change is urgent, but that new green industries could create thousands of jobs...
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BBC News
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The EU target of ensuring 10% of petrol and diesel comes from renewable sources by 2020 is not an effective way to curb carbon emissions, researchers say.
A team of UK-based scientists suggested that reforestation and habitat protection was a better op..
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BBC News
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Europe's carbon emissions have risen markedly over the last 40 years, but the extra fuel use has brought little increase in happiness, a report says.
Written by the New Economics Foundation (Nef), it says that reducing social inequality and energy cons..
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