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EU’s new carbon emission target could be approved next week
The European Commission is likely to approve a new target where the 28-nation bloc would have to slash its emissions 40% by 2030 from 1990 levels, while significantly scaling back its fixed renewable energy targets from 2020.
read more... 17/01/2014
E.ON has started construction works of Amrumbank West wind farm
German utility company E.ON has started the construction of the Amrumbank West wind farm, a 288MW wind project in the North Sea, which will consist of 80 turbines, and should be enough to power around 300,000 households, cutting more than 740,000 metric tons of carbon emissions every year. The first foundation has been installed at the site, 37 kilometres off the island of Heligoland.
read more... 16/01/2014
US emissions increased 2% last year
Since the combustion of fossil fuel is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, changes in emissions from fossil fuel combustion have historically been the dominant factor affecting total U.S. emission trends.
read more... 15/01/2014
UK’s coal-fired power plants to come off the grid in less than 10 years
Energy supplier RWE npower has announced it intends to avoid costly retrofits required by European Union pollution laws on seven of its power plants in UK, meaning they will close by the end of 2023 at the latest. The EU Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) should come into effect in 2016, imposing limits on emissions of climate-harming gases.
read more... 10/01/2014
Global Carbon Emissions set to reach new record high in 2013
According to new figures from the Global Carbon Project, global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels are set to rise again in 2013 reaching a record high of more than 36 billion tones. An increase of about 2.1% expected for the current year, would mean that global emissions from burning fossil fuel would be 61% above 1990 levels.
read more... 30/12/2013