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Prepare for global temperature rise of 4C - top UK scientist • GE: Climate change a big opportunity • Energy efficiency saves Dell US$3M • EU: Boost for emissions trading scheme • UK: Green energy help for poor • Shipping costs crimping globalisation • The Climate Group reports on ‘China’s Clean Revolution’ • Ontario joins Western Climate Initiative • Australia’s Garnaut Climate Change Review draft report…


August 7, Prepare for global temperature rise of 4C
Guardian
Maintaining we should aim to limit global temperature changes to 2C, DEFRA’s chief scientific adviser also warns “[given that] we don’t know in detail how to limit greenhouse gas emissions to realise a 2 degree target, we should be prepared to adapt to 4C"…
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August 7, GE: Climate change a big opportunity
Sydney Morning Herald
Climate change represents the biggest opportunity for global giant GE over the coming decades, the company’s Australian and New Zealand chief executive Steve Sargent says....
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August 6, Energy efficiency saves Dell $3M
Dell Computer announces it has reached its goal of becoming “carbon neutral” five months ahead of schedule....and greater energy efficiency and renewable energy is now saving the company $3 million a year. ..
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August 6, EU: Boost for emissions trading scheme
Financial Times
European Union and United Nations systems for tracking the use of carbon credits will be connected before December, a move that should significantly facilitate emissions trading…
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August 4, UK: Green energy help for poor
The Guardian
Ministers in the UK are examining a raft of green energy measures to protect Britain’s poorest from the impact of rising gas and electricity prices…
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August 3, Shipping costs crimping globalisation
New York Times
Many see evidence that companies looking to keep prices low will have to move some production closer to consumers. Globe-spanning supply chains make less sense today than they did a few years ago…
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August 1, China to be world’s top manufacturer of green energy
Bloomberg
China, the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, is poised to lead world production of solar cells, wind power turbines and low-carbon energy technology, according to a report from the Climate Group…
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July 22, Ontario joins Western Climate Initiative
ClimateBiz
Ontario, home to Canada’s industrial sector, is the fourth province in Canada to join WCI. The regional collaboration that includes seven U.S. states will launch a cap and trade system in 2010…
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July 5, Garnaut Review: Australia’s harsh reality - adapt or perish
Sydney Morning Herald
The 537-page report, commissioned by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warns that, as well as environmental degradation, taking no action would by the end of the century result in $425 billion being wiped each year from the economy and a reduction in wages of almost 8 per cent…
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