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China: the most ambitious country in taking steps to reduce carbon emissions
A new report has revealed that China is one of the most ambitious countries that is making big efforts to curb environmental impacts even if it continues to remain the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter.
read more... 29/04/2013
The UK's emissions are actually increased by around a fifth
According to the Committee on Climate Change, carbon emissions have dropped about 20% in the last 20 years, limiting this way the growth in the UK’s carbon footprint. So formally, UK carbon emissions have been falling for last years, but increased imports of goods from overseas, which create emissions during their manufacture in other countries, are pushing up the overall total of greenhouse gases, so the UK's emissions have actually increased by more than a fifth.
read more... 26/04/2013
Carbon Connect: UK has to close coal fired stations to achieve carbon targets
UK should give up its coal-fired power stations if it wants to achieve its carbon emissions targets by 2020, recommended a report released by the think tank Carbon Connect.
read more... 24/04/2013
What next for the EU Emissions Trading Scheme?
The European Parliament narrowly defeated a proposal to temporarily remove allowances from the world’s biggest carbon market, the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
read more... 23/04/2013
EDF may erase hopes of new nuclear power plants in UK
The U.K. government is seeking to restore nuclear energy as part of a program to limit its carbon emissions and has been in talks with French state-controlled EDF, the world's largest nuclear operator, to build as many as four new reactors.
read more... 19/04/2013