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EEA: Higher EU greenhouse gas emissions in 2010 due to economic recovery and cold winter

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The higher share of gas led to an improved carbon intensity of fossil fuel consumption in many Member States. Among the greenhouse gases reported to the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC), carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) accounted for the largest increase in emissions in 2010.

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Rolls-Royce consortium secures funding for mini nuclear reactors

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Each power station can supply enough reliable low carbon power for around one million* homes, or be used to power net zero hydrogen and synthetic aviation fuel manufacturing facilities, desalination plants or energy intensive industrial sites. billion per unit dropping to £1.8

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EEA says industrial air pollution cost Europe up to €169 billion in 2009; some 37% attributed to CO2

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Estimating the magnitude of costs associated with future climate change impacts is very uncertain. However, when damage costs are weighted in an attempt to reflect the productivity of national economies, the ordering of countries changes significantly. A small number of individual facilities cause the majority of damage costs.

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OPG, GE Hitachi to deploy small modular reactor at Darlington station in Canada

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International bodies, including the International Energy Agency (IEA), have been clear: climate change initiatives will fall short without nuclear power as part of the electricity supply mix. megatonnes (MT) to 2 MT of carbon dioxide emissions per year, depending on where it is located and what kind of power it is displacing.

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