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IPCC Chairman To Head Climate and Energy Institute At Yale

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Speaking at the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change (ISCCC), which opened today in Copenhagen, Yale University president Richard Levin announced that the university’s new Yale Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI) will be led by Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, who has headed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002.

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Inaugural meeting of Volkswagen Sustainability Council; Group makes €20M available for projects

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Ottmar Edenhofer – Deputy Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change. Connie Hedegaard – former EU Commissioner for Climate Action. Dr. Gesche Joost – Professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin.

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NASA testing new boundary layer ingesting (BLI) propulsor; 4-8% fuel burn savings over current advanced engines

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NASA is testing the propulsor, designed by United Technologies Research Center with research conducted by Virginia Polytechnic and State University, in its 8' x 6' Wind Tunnel at NASA Glenn in Cleveland, Ohio. Source: Hall (2016). Click to enlarge. The highly experimental tests have required years of preparation.

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Worlds Coral Reefs Began Decline At 320 ppm Atmospheric CO2

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Veron of the Center for Marine Studies, University of Queensland. The joint statement will be submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ahead of December's climate policy negotiations in Copenhagen. Jack Rosebro.

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Toyota develops tropospheric ozone-concentration simulator for South and East Asia

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The project was carried out in collaboration with Tsinghua University in China, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in India, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Toyota Central R&D Labs.,

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ERTOC: optimizing CO2 of shipments down to an individual consignment level

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The Efficient and Reliable Transportation of Consignments ( ERTOC ) project, a two-year research collaboration between Ricardo, GS1 UK, Unipart Logistics, IRIS Technology and Coventry University, has delivered a viable prototype demonstrator. International Journal of Applied Logistics (IJAL) doi: 10.4018/jal.2012040104. 2012040104.

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US EPA seeking to award up to $1M for project to mitigate black carbon from diesel sources in Russian Arctic

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of Stanford University reported that reducing soot emissions from diesel engines and other sources could slow melting of sea ice in the Arctic faster and more economically than any other quick fix. Consequently, soot’s effect on climate change has not been adequately addressed in national and international global warming legislation.

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