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UPS Sets New Automotive Goal to Improve Package Delivery Fleet Fuel Economy a Total of 20% from 2000 to 2020

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UPS is targeting a 20% improvement in fuel economy for its US package delivery fleet from 2000 to 2020. UPS has set a new automotive goal to improve the miles per gallon (MPG) performance of its entire US package delivery fleet by 20 percent between 2000 and 2020. million more miles than in 2000, yet fuel consumption decreased by 3.2

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Presidential Report calls for integrated Federal energy policy with Quadrennial Energy Review, $16B per year in Federal support for energy RDDD

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The report, Accelerating the Pace of Change in Energy Technologies Through an Integrated Federal Energy Policy , provides a roadmap for the Federal role in transforming the US energy system within one to two decades. A Quadrennial Energy Review (QER) could establish national goals and coordinate actions across agencies.

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Study: Hydrofluorocarbons Will Contribute Significantly to Global Warming by 2050

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Global ozone-depleting substances (ODSs) and HFC emissions (A), global CO 2 and HFC emissions (B), and ODS, HFC, and CO 2 global RF (C) for the period 2000–2050. We report new baseline scenarios for the consumption and emissions of HFCs to 2050 based only on existing policies. Tags: Climate Change Policy. Velders et al.

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Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Can Delay Abrupt Climate Change; The Fast Action Climate Agenda

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North American leaders followed suit with their own joint proposal, which builds on the islands’ submission. A recent study reported that ozone’s damage to crop yields in 2000 resulted in an economic loss of up to $26 billion annually. Tags: Climate Change Policy. It also lowers crop yields. PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.0902568106.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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IPCC reference emissions scenarios, 2000—2100. The Council of European Ministers adopted the limit as policy on behalf of the European Union in 1996, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) subsequently employed the limit as context in its Third Assessment Report (TAR), published in 2001. [ by Jack Rosebro. The > 1.5

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Current climate policies destined for ‘imminent failure’

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With the G8 set to meet in Italy this week, a report outlining a strategy to avert an otherwise imminent failure in climate policy is being published by the London School of Economics (LSE) and Political Science’s Mackinder Programme and the Institute for Science, Innovation & Society at the University of Oxford today.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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Its wholly interpretive guidelines can be used to approve or disapprove a building, addition or remodel completely on subjective principles. As usual, my thinning, anorexic local micro paper did a so-so job in their reporting. Nick Green of the Breeze did a good job reporting. The building inspectors, limited at best.

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