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New study puts air-pollution related deaths in India in 2019 at 1.67 million

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Air pollution in India resulted 1.67 million deaths in 2019—the largest pollution-related death toll in any country in the world—and also accounted for $36.8 The 2019 death toll attributed to air pollution in India accounted for 17.8% Pollution takes an enormous human toll in India. It is causing 1.67

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Australia PM Gillard announces carbon pricing plan; transport fuels exempt, but lowered fuel tax credits to bring carbon price to some businesses

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Australia’s per capita CO 2 emissions are higher than those of the US due to an emissions-intensive energy sector. Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard unveiled Australia’s carbon pricing plan—a core element in a new clean energy plan—in a short address to the nation. Click to enlarge.

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Nature Materials editorial urges reconsideration of approach to battery regulation in Europe

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At the same time, the EU has proposed new regulations on battery technologies that aim to also make the industry more sustainable and less polluting. It does not, for example, have a strong domestic market for lithium: global supplies of the metal come mostly from Australia, Chile and China.

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A stack of lies you could drive a Toyota HiLux through | Opinion

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And, as a result, new passenger cars in Australia use 40 per cent more fuel than those in the European Union. Or, as Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen put it: “It’s up to the FCAI to explain the clear contradiction in their two positions. READ MORE: It’s a green light for electric vehicles! Look, I get it.

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Study findings suggest that switching from coal to natural gas would do little for global climate

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The study will appear next month in the peer-reviewed journal Climatic Change Letters. Relying more on natural gas would reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, but it would do little to help solve the climate problem. However, the effects of natural gas on climate change have been difficult to calculate.

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So You Think YOU Can Dance? Take To The Streets & Do The PowerShift Dance!

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They have only three very reasonable demands: Green Jobs for our generation, A Power Shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy, 50% by 2020 carbon pollution reduction targets for Australia. carbon producers citizen volunteer climate change environment fossil fuels green jobs flash mob Power Shift 2009.

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New study finds natural aerosols may contribute more uncertainty than previously thought to how climate responds to anthropogenic GHG emission

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The finding could further complicate attempts to model climate change. The team showed that the effect of aerosols on the climate since industrialisation depends strongly on what the atmosphere was like before pollution, when aerosols were produced only from natural emissions. —Professor Carslaw. Resources.

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