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Global billionaires unite in “Breakthrough energy coalition” to support development of zero-carbon energy

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Aliko Dangote, Founder and Chief Executive, Dangote Group, Nigeria. University of California, Office of the Chief Investment Officer, US. HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Alwaleed Philanthropies, Saudi Arabia. Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group, UK.

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Low-lying and other vulnerable countries calling for fast action on non-CO2 global warming pollutants

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The scientific case for such a strategy was laid out in an Op Ed in The New York Times by Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan, from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and his colleague, Professor David Victor.

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GE study finds 5% of worlds natural gas production wasted per year by flaring

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Although Nigeria has reduced flare gas emissions by 28% from 2000 levels, the country’s oil industry still wastes 15bcm of natural gas every year. —David Victor, director of the Laboratory on International Law & Regulation at the University of California San Diego.

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