positive Climate and Energy news
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Canada to phase out older coal-fired power plantsCanada will phase out older coal-fired power plants to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday, as it moves to make natural-gas fired plants the new clean-power standard. |
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EU Sees Solar Power Imported From Sahara In 5 YearsEurope will import its first solar-generated electricity from North Africa within the next five years, European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said in an interview on Sunday. |
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GEF backs ‘Great Green Wall’ with 119 million dollarsThe Global Environment Facility announced Thursday at a summit in Chad that it will fund a "Great Green Wall" to reforest northern Africa to the tune of 119 million dollars (96 million euros). |
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Sperm whale faeces ‘offset CO2 emissions’Sperm whale faeces may help oceans absorb carbon dioxide from the air, scientists say. |
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Support For U.S. Climate Regulation Growing: PollA growing number of Americans want the United States to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as the largest oil spill in U.S. history helps boost interest in petroleum alternatives, a poll by two universities found on Tuesday. |
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Gulf of Mexico oil cap funnels 6,000 barrelsA special cap funnelling oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill appears to be having some success, a US Coast Guard official has said. |
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Key Countries Partner to Reduce Deforestation EmissionsAt the Oslo Climate and Forest Conference in Norway on Friday, over 50 developed and developing countries signed a “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation” (REDD) partnership, committing to spend over $4 billion in the next three years to reduce emissions from deforestation activities. |
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BP sees ‘some success’ with top kill methodBP has measured "some success" in the Gulf of Mexico with a risky procedure known as "top kill," which has never been tried before a mile under the ocean's surface, the company's top executive said Friday. |
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Most large companies plan to increase spending on climateSeventy percent of firms with revenue of $1 billion or more say they plan to increase spending on climate change initiatives in the next two years, a global survey reported on Tuesday. |
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Canada, U.S. to regulate emissions of heavy vehiclesCanada and the United States will work together to slash greenhouse gas emissions by regulating emissions from heavy-duty vehicles, Environment Minister Jim Prentice announced Friday. |
evironmental news headlines
- Huge growth at largest wind farm
- Govt ups ante against illegal logging, mining and plantations
- Sunny Delight Achieves Zero Waste in U.S.
- Paris Metro Body Heat To Help Warm Building
- EPA to issue more rules in climate fight
- U.S. Proposes Grading Cars On Emissions, Efficiency
- NYC sky-scrapers dim lights to help migratory birds
- Norwegian government boycotts Malaysian timber giant
- 100MW solar power plant to be built in the UAE
- New road concrete developed that actually cleans the air
- Russia and China vow to protect Siberian tigers
- Cannabis electric car to be made in Canada
- Fortune 500 Companies Flex Market Muscle, Reject Tar Sands
- New Study Shows Americans Used Less Energy and More Renewables in 2009
- Smallest frog in Asia discovered in Borneo
- Scientists hope to collect electricity from the air
- White House crackdown on dirty trucks gathers pace
- Spray-on film turns glass into solar panels
- Mexico City bans free plastic bags
- No deepwater drilling without environmental studies: U.S.
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