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Fast action on black carbon, ozone and methane could help limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees C

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°F), according to a new assessment released today in Bonn, Germany, during a meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). ventilation air from coal mines. Extended recovery and utilization, rather than venting, of associated gas and improved control of unintended fugitive emissions from the production.

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Joint IEA-NEA report details plunge in costs of renewable electricity; nuclear competitive with other baseload power sources

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The report, Projected Costs of Generating Electricity: 2015 Edition , also shows that new nuclear power plants generate electricity more cheaply than other established “baseload” sources—mainly coal- and gas-fired power plants—over the full lifetime of facilities when financing costs are relatively low.

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PwC analysis finds meeting 2 C warming target would require “unprecedented and sustained” reductions over four decades

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By contrast, the UK, France and Germany achieved record levels of annual carbon emissions intensity reductions, but were helped on by milder winters. PwC divides the G20 into three blocks: G7 economies (US, Japan, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Canada). Other G20 (Australia, Korea, EU, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Argentina).

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

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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SwRI, UTSA seek to combine reverse water-gas shift and Fischer Tropsch synthesis in single reactor to produce low-carbon hydrocarbon fuels

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The first will react hydrogen with CO 2 to make carbon monoxide (CO) and the second will convert the CO and hydrogen, a blend known as synthesis gas or syngas, into liquid hydrocarbon fuel by Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. Plant capacities ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of barrels of fuel per day.

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