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

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Such perception is at odds with most projections; for example, the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change suggested in March that while some societies might be able to cope with a “two-degree world” through aggressive adaptive strategies, impacts could be “significant” even below 2 ºC. BBC: 15 December 2009. [

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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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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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asked David Marcus, the head of the project at Facebook, whether the company would wait for Congress to consider appropriate regulation. This article appears in the December 2023 print issue as “Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currencies.” Netflix is AWS’s largest customer.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Sven Thesen, the communication and technology director for Better Place , a start-up that is gaining traction (see this recent New York Times article ) in its effort to create a network for electric cars in various countries, likened the concept of electric cars to cellphones. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?”

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