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Summary of decisions from Durban climate conference

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Governments at the COP17 meeting decided to adopt some form of a universal legal agreement on climate change as soon. Governments, including 35 industrialized countries, also agreed to a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol—due to expire next year— from 1 January 2013. future agreements. Adaptation.

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UK study finds low carbon policy has bolstered UK automotive sector, but trucks neglected and biofuels stalled

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A major new report published at the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership’s Annual Conference shows the UK automotive sector has been revitalized by consistently applied policy centered on cutting carbon. billion (US$110 billion) in 2013 compared with £46.3 Value of low carbon investments by year and cumulative. Click to enlarge.

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UT Austin researcher awarded $15M for switchgrass traits studies

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One of the really interesting things with these grasses is that the climate in which they have found themselves has changed a lot over the last several hundred thousand years. As glaciers and climate change occurred, their populations were pushed south. And as glaciers retreated, the populations expanded north.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. The Sustainable Web Design Community Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was established in 2013, while the Green Web Foundation began in 2006 as a way to understand the kinds of energy that power the Internet. Are my third parties green?

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U Chicago, MIT study suggests ongoing use of fossil fuels absent new carbon taxes

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For comparison, the business-as-usual scenario from IPCC (2013) has cumulative emissions of 6,180 gigatons of CO 2 between 2012 and 2100. … What are the prospects for avoiding this dystopian future? Ultimately, their enactment would greatly reduce the probability that the world will have to contend with disruptive climate change.

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Dennis Whyte [left], the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, and Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ CEO, Bob Mumgaard, confer in CFS’s test hall, where the startup built and tested its first magnet. I’m watching it happening all around me.

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