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Lux: China, India lead Asian alternative fuels; targets likely will not be met

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Indonesia, China and Malaysia are the three dominant nations in biodiesel, each driven by challenging mandates. Indonesia is targeting 20% adoption by 2025 while Malaysia positions itself to be a dominant exporter with 143 MGY in 2015. Cost, pollution are catalysts for NGVs. India’s growth, however, at an impressive 18.5%

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Global CO2 emissions stalled for the third year in a row

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Emissions are increasing in other developing countries: 6% for Indonesia and Malaysia; 9% for Pakistan and 12% for the Philippines. CH 4 is mainly generated by agricultural activities, the production of coal and gas, as well as waste treatment and disposal. Also in Eurasia emissions grew in Turkey (5%) and Ukraine (8%).

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Global Bioenergy Partnership publishes report on 24 sustainability indicators for bioenergy: electricity, heat and transport

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In the meantime, the Partnership is proceeding with piloting projects in Indonesia, Colombia and Ghana. Emissions of non- GHG air pollutants, including air toxics. Percentages of bioenergy from yield increases, residues, wastes and degraded or contaminated land. Click to enlarge. Environmental pillar. Water quality.

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Get Your Monkeywrenches Ready! Politicians Beg For Climate Change Wake Up Call

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. “ In case they haven’t gotten the clue yet, it’s now time for both the general public and the people who get paid to lead them to stop wasting time and lives and take crisis level action on climate change without any further delay.

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U.K. Startup’s Digital Dyeing Printers Save Energy, Water

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He had created Xennia Technology as well, whose inkjet technologies revolutionized other highly polluting processes, such as the surface treatment for ceramic tiles. Unsurprisingly: apart from some occasional optimizations (less chemicals, better waste recycling), processes haven’t changed. gigatons of carbon dioxide by 2050.

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Baker Institute: energy-subsidy reform can be achieved with proper preparation, outside pressure

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These effects include wasted resources, foregone revenue and outsized emissions of carbon dioxide as well as local pollutants such as sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides. Indonesia, for example, after failed attempts in 1997 and 2003, successfully raised fuel prices in 2005 and 2008.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank, and author of “Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming,” correctly states, “For almost 20 years, from Rio to Kyoto to Copenhagen, we’ve been wasting time, pursuing the failed strategy of cutting carbon-dioxide emissions.