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US, China, and G-20 agree to work to global phase down of HFCs

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This was agreed by: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey,the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union, as well as Ethiopia, Spain, Senegal, Brunei, Kazakhstan, and Singapore.

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BHP offboards its petroleum business in merger with Woodside; focus on “future-facing commodities”

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The Atlantis Phase 3 (US), Mad Dog Phase 2 (US), Shenzi North (US) and Sangomar Field Development Phase 1 (Senegal) projects remain on budget and on track, and along with significant brownfield expansion options, provide opportunity for near- and medium-term growth. BHP also recently announced that it will supply Tesla Inc. Earlier post.).

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Auto Racing Test Drives Its Own EV Future

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Its own stepchild, the inaugural Extreme E series, is staging electric off-road battles in such exotic locales as Greenland, Senegal, and Sardinia, with five teams led by racing superstars including Chip Ganassi , Nico Rosberg and Michael Andretti. The latest is World Rallycross , a wild-and-wooly mix of off-road rallying and tarmac sections.

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IISD Releases Five-Part Series of Reports on Removing Fossil Fuel Subsidies

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All six of the major studies concluded that reform would lead to reductions in CO 2 emissions, although predictions of the magnitude of reductions varied significantly, from 1.1% These conclusions were generally supported by single-country modelled and empirical results. by 2010 to 18% by 2050.

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Will EU demand for biofuel mean starvation for world’s poorest?

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Here in the UK, the Renewable Fuels Agency which was set up by the Government to implement the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO), a response to the EU Biofuel Directive, commissioned the Gallagher Review last year to investigate the link between biofuels, rising carbon emissions and spiralling food prices.

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