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JRC Report Concludes Extreme Weather Wont Affect Average Levels of European Crop Output for 2010; Yields Up, Although Acreage Down; Heat and Drought Have Huge Impact on Russia

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Meanwhile, both spring and early summer brought a severe shortage of rain to Belgium, the Czech Republic, northern Germany, Greece, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, eastern Poland and the UK. The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia were hit by floods in the spring. Crop yield forecasts for 2010.

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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, IVECO and ENGIE collaborating to promote natural gas in Europe starting from Belgium

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The extensive cooperation set out in the MoU includes several European Countries such as Italy, Romania, France and the Czech Republic and various areas of activities, like in-site fuel stations, R&D collaboration, cooperation with Governments and private stakeholders to develop CNG within the European DAFI, and the European project Connect2LNG.

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QUANTIFY Study Finds GHG Emissions from Global Transport Could Double Their Net Contribution to Warming by 2100

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A total of 40 partners from EU Member States including the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the UK, as well as Russia and the US are participating in the QUANTIFY project, which is being coordinated by Germany’s Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) and is due to end in February 2010. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.05.025.

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Research Suggests Renewables Could Generate 40% of Global Power by 2050

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Renewable energy technologies could generate 40% of the world’s electricity by 2050, according to research presented at the International Scientific Congress “Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions”. The Czech Republic, meanwhile, is also a major supporter of renewable energy.

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Rolls-Royce consortium secures funding for mini nuclear reactors

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Tom Samson, CEO of the UK SMR consortium, said: “Nuclear power is central to tackling climate change, securing economic recovery and strengthening energy security. billion per unit dropping to £1.8 billion by the time five have been completed Operate for at least 60 years.

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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

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One of the companies featured in the story, Gravitricity, completed its 250-kilowatt gravity battery demonstrator in Edinburgh last April and is now working on a full-scale deployment at a mine in the Czech Republic. billion EV battery plant —that’s GM’s and LG Chem’s new mega-gigafactory in Lordstown, Ohio.

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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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