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Next Fuel, Inc. signs definitive agreement to field test coal-to-gas technology in China; Chinese partner makes strategic investment

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The company also announced that persons affiliated with Future Fuel made the second part of a $2-million strategic investment in Next Fuel and now own 1 million shares of common stock, which exceeds 10% of Next Fuel’s outstanding shares, and a representative of the investor group joined the Board of Directors. Next Fuel, Inc.,

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

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Australia is the world’s largest exporter of coal and one of the world’s highest per-capita emitters of greenhouse gases. Climate change projections authored by Chinese scientists indicate that China’s annual mean air temperature is likely to rise by 1.3 ºC in 2020, and 2.3 “It has implications for us.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. The Chinese can promise to do this because they’re modernizing their economy.