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Obama wants to save the world?
President Barack Obama has revealed yesterday the most ambitious plan that a US president has ever set. The plan includes measures to curb carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants, the largest source of emissions in the U.S. The limits are intended to help reduce carbon emissions by three billion metric tons by 2020.
read more... 26/06/2013
Italian government signs a MoU with CDP aiming to improve the environmental performance and stimulate economic growth
The Italian government will invite 100 of the nation’s major companies to monitor and report their emissions of carbon dioxide in a move which aims to help the nation to cut emissions from sectors excluded by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
read more... 17/06/2013
IEA: World carbon emissions at a new record high in 2012
World carbon dioxide emissions hit a record high of 31.6 billion tons in 2012, even if U.S. and Europe registered lower emissions.
read more... 11/06/2013
Eurostat: CO2 emissions down 2.1% in 2012
Eurostat has announced recently that carbon dioxide emissions in the European Union decreased by 2.1 percent in 2012 compared with 2011. However, in 2011 the decline was bigger as it was recorded at 4.1 %.
read more... 31/05/2013
China to set a cap on its CO2 emissions by 2016
The world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide intends to set a cap on its greenhouse gas emissions for the first time. China is planning an absolute emissions cap for the period 2016-2020, and is also looking at emissions targets for 2030 and 2050.
read more... 27/05/2013