Wind and solar benchmarks for a 1.5°C world
This report presents a detailed methodology for determining the amount of wind and solar capacity that is required for a country to align with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C temperature goal. While the focus
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Jute bag exports rise as shopping goes eco-correct
Eco-concerns drive demand for biodegradable bags on the global market, giving rise to the exports of shopping jute bags from Bangladesh. Jute goods makers export around 100,000 shopping bags a month on average to different countries. They hope scope for more shipments will widen next year, as some European countries are set to ban polythene bags in 2010.
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EU States Near Acid Pollution Deal
European environment ministers could agree to tighten up widely flouted acid pollution laws this week after rapid progress in recent negotiations over industrial emissions brought a compromise within reach.
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Thailand Said Asia's Biggest Illegal Ivory Market
Thailand still has Asia's biggest illegal elephant ivory market despite promises to crack down, the wildlife trade monitoring group Traffic said on Friday. The report said Bangkok should close "elephant-sized loopholes" in its wildlife protection laws that enable sellers to pass off illegal ivory as coming from a legal source of domesticated animals.
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Climate talks snarled up
International climate negotiators muddled through the latest round of global-warming talks in Bonn, Germany, last week, overshadowed by independent bilateral negotiations in Beijing between the United States and China. Neither meeting produced any significant breakthroughs, and new disagreements seem to have outnumbered resolutions by a wide margin.
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German firms eye huge African solar project
German firms plan to club together next month to turn into reality a dream to generate electricity for Europe in the deserts of north Africa using solar power, a newspaper report said Tuesday.
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German Conservatives Delay Vote On CO2 Capture Law
A spokeswoman for the parliamentary group of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives said the group will reconsider the carbon capture and storage (CCS) law again in two weeks.
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Germany to fund 15 mn Euro Tripura project
Supratim Dey / Kolkata/ Guwahati June 15, 2009, 0:29 IST Germany has come forward to fund a 15 million euro Tripura government project for socio-economic development of tribals and forest resource management.
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Pakistan joins global renewable energy body
Pakistan has joined International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) after signing the statutes in Berlin to become the 87th member of the newly set up world body on renewable energy.
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Climate Change Threatens African Farmland: Study
Climate change could cost the African continent more farmland than the United States uses to plant its eight major field crops combined, according to a study published in the June issue of Environmental Science and Policy.