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Today a new very useful application was launched to put European energy targets into a context and visualise data from (mainly) Eurostat. Eurostat provides free to re-use, open data – which is really useful and even more useful if you put these datasets in a context. The team of the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) did [...]
While counties across the world are dithering about climate mitigation, India is getting ready to launch its Solar Mission under the National Action Plan on Climate Change. At the moment, India produces less than 5 MW of solar power a year. Under the National Action Plan on Climate Change, India aims to generate 1.000 MW [...]
Ministers and businesses agree on accelerating transition
25 Jul 2010
by Denise Recheis - Category: News
Last Thursday The Financial Times, Le Monde and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published an article which set out possible economic benefits that could be achieved by increasing the EU’s target of 20% to a more ambitious 30%. Ministers of the UK, Germany and France laid out their visions for simultaneously increasing those targets and achieving better [...]
To stay within tolerable temperature limits, worldwide emissions must stop rising before 2020, must be cut by at least half of their 1990 levels by 2050, and must continue to fall thereafter. The EU is serious about ensuring that an ambitious and legally binding global treaty is agreed at the UN climate change conference in [...]
A new analysis from the Carbon Disclosure Project reports that top companies in the U.S. will fail to meet President Barack Obama‘s goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions 17 % compared to a 2005 baseline by 2020. This proposal was made in the run-up to the Climate Summit in Copenhagen. In fact, companies on Standard [...]
Today is the deadline under the U.N climate accord for rich countries to submit their targets in terms of GHG emissions, and for developing nations to declare their plans for reducing and slowing down emissions.
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