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New California law to curb climate pollutant emissions based on Scripps scienceBy : sustainabilityo..., Sep 22, 2016
California Governor Edmund “Jerry” Brown signed into law today new state restrictions on the emissions of so-called short-lived climate pollutants such as methane, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used... Read more.. |
Paris Climate Deal Expands Opportunities for Energy StorageBy : sustainabilityo..., Dec 22, 2015
In the wake of the U.N. talks in Paris, trillions of dollars of investment in green energy had been pledged by development banks, pension funds, corporations and other investors. Hugh Sharman, a principal at the Danish consultancy Incoteco, said much of that money... Read more.. |
Brazil launches distributed generation programme emphasizing solar energyBy : sustainabilityo..., Dec 22, 2015
Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) has launched a programme encouraging consumers to generate their own power from renewable energy sources, with a particular emphasis on solar. The distributed generation (DG) model is also promoted as a way to reduce the... Read more.. |
climate COP21 Buildings Day commitment from USGBCBy : sustainabilityo..., Dec 7, 2015
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced today that it will commit to scaling green buildings to more than 5 billion square feet (478 million sq m) over the next five years through the LEED and EDGE green building rating systems. USGBC’s commitment was made at... Read more.. |
Lima-Paris Action Agenda calls for cutting short-lived climate pollutantsBy : sustainabilityo..., Dec 7, 2015
At COP 21, governments and industry leaders in the Climate and Clean Air Coalition committed to further essential advances in reducing short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) that have a global warming potential many times that of the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. ... Read more.. |
Paris climate meet reaches draft deal, India’s concerns visibleBy : sustainabilityo..., Dec 7, 2015
Less than a week into the crucial global climate change conference here, some 196 participating countries on Saturday reached a draft deal which seeks to address one of India’s main demands that rich nations must extend emerging economies both funding and technology so that... Read more.. |
UN’s Bonn Climate Talks End Up Better Than They StartedBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 27, 2015
Friday marked the end of the week-long October international climate meeting (11th part of the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action) in Bonn, a runup to the first global climate change agreement in 18 years this December. As at... Read more.. |
Rocky start for UN climate talks in BonnBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 21, 2015
As UN diplomats convened in Bonn today, developing nations were balking at the latest draft of a global climate agreement to be inked in Paris in December, negotiators and experts said. The five-day session is the last formal parlay before heads of states and... Read more.. |
'US to cooperate with India in dealing with climate change'By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 12, 2015
The US has said it welcomes any contributions by India in dealing with the problems of climate change and looks forward to cooperate with the country in this regard. "Any contributions by India towards helping us deal with the problems of climate change and clean... Read more.. |
Vulnerable nations launch ‘V20’ to fight climate changeBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 12, 2015
Finance ministers from 20 of the countries most vulnerable to climate change have launched the “V20” group to pool resources for their fight against the impact of global warming. The group, which includes some of the world’s smallest and poorest countries, is a... Read more.. |