April 08, 2010
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Air & Climate Newsletter April 08, 2010 |
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US plans major polluters climate meeting for Washington
The controversial twin track approach to international climate change negotiations is to continue after the top US climate change negotiator confirmed plans to a host a meeting of major polluters later this month. Todd Stern told news agency Reuters that the US would host a meeting in Washington on 18-19 April that will follow hot-on-the-heels of the next UN climate change meeting in Bonn, which starts this week. Stern insisted the meeting of the Major Economies Forum, which includes 17 countries that together account for around 80 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, would not ... |
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Cut carbon and create jobs
The Energy and Climate Change Committee of the U.K. House of Commons says low carbon technologies will create jobs and lower carbon dioxide emissions but the Government must act faster if the UK is to reap the economic benefits it deserves. To date, there has been disappointingly slow progress with the move towards a green economy, it adds. Launching the report, Paddy Tipping MP, Acting Chair of the Energy and Climate Change Committee, said `Investment in low carbon technologies must be seen as key to a sustainable economic recovery over the long term. The Government should increase the proportion ... |
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