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JRC: Increased use of renewables results in growing GHG emission savings in the EU; transport contribution only 5%

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from 2009 to 2012, confirming renewables’ potential in climate change mitigation, according to a new report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s in-house science service. Nearly two thirds of the total savings came from renewable energy development in Germany, Sweden, France, Italy and Spain. Mt CO 2 eq.

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

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“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

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

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The Breeze got their own headline wrong since Bradley isn’t a “Torrance man&# he lives in Rancho Palos Verdes where his business is based, as it says in paragraph five of their article, but you’ve got to cut them some slack because their legacy ship is sinking. We’re behind Spain! Are you kidding me? BRAD (laughing).

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