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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Germany To Allow GMO Potato Trials
Germany's Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner said on Monday she will allow test cultivation of a potato containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Open air trials of the GMO potato Amflora, developed by German chemicals group BASF presented no threat to public health or the environment, she said.
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Rich Nation Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rise In 2007
Greenhouse gas emissions from industrialized nations rose by nearly one percent in 2007, led by strong gains in the United States, official data showed. Carbon emissions from countries signed up to the Kyoto Protocol climate pact edged up by 0.1 percent in 2007, mainly due to rises in Japan and Canada.
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UK Imposes Carbon Limits On New Coal Plants
Britain announced on Thursday plans to force all new coal plants in the country to test a pioneering carbon-cutting technology, as it tries to sharpen efforts to meet steep climate change targets. The move would make Britain the first country to require coal plants to fit carbon capture and storage (CCS), still unproven on a commercial scale.
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Germany bans GM maize
Germany has outlawed the cultivation of Monsanto's genetically modified maize, Mon810 - the only GM crop approved in the European Union.
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U.S. In Spotlight At Talks On Global Warming Fight
A new U.S. commitment to tackle global warming as outlined by President Barack Obama will be the focus of attention on Wednesday at a meeting of international environment ministers. Obama has already pledged to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, and observers will be looking to see if U.S. delegates give new details of American plans for action.
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Lab Finds New Method To Turn Biomass Into Gasoline
U.S. scientists have combined a discovery from a French garbage dump with breakthroughs in synthetic biology to come up with a novel method for turning plant waste into gasoline, without the need of any food sources.
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EU Greenhouse Emissions Fall - Because It's Warmer
European Union emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for stoking global warming fell by 1.2 percent in 2007, paradoxically aided by a mild winter that cut heating demand, EU data showed on Friday. Emissions by the 27-nation bloc in 2007, before the current global economic downturn, dipped to 9.2 percent below a 1990 benchmark year under the UN's Kyoto Protocol for fighting climate change.
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Two more seismic wave monitoring centres
The Geological Survey and Mines Bureau (GSMB) will establish two more seismic wave monitoring centres at Mahakanadarawa, Anuradhapura and Hakmana before the end of this year, to enhance the measuring capacity of earth tremors.
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Suzlon in talks with Sivasankaran to raise Rs 400 cr
Piyush Pandey & M V Ramsurya MUMBAI
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Little progress seen at climate talks
The meeting in Bonn saw the start of negotiations on climate change leading up to December's meeting in Copenhagen.