FUTURIST UPDATE: Air Pollution Is Deadlier Than We Thought

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April 2014 • Volume 15, No. 4 In this issue: Air Pollution Is Deadlier Than We Thought Planet-Hunting Astronomers Get Help from a Robot A “Green” Solution to High Drug Prices WorldFuture 2014 Speakers Bookshelf What’s Hot in The Futurist magazine Air Pollution Is Deadlier Than We Thought Air pollution …

O.E.C.D. Warns of Ever-Higher Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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O.E.C.D. Warns of Ever-Higher Greenhouse Gas Emissions By REUTERS Published: March 15, 2012 LONDON — Global greenhouse gas emissions could rise 50 percent by 2050 without more ambitious climate policies, as fossil fuels continue to dominate the energy mix, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Thursday. “Unless the …

‘A GRAND CHINESE CLIMATE SCHEME’ – the first paper in the “Risoe DTU Climate Paper Series”

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Dear Climate-L reader 11. November 2010 The first paper in the “Risoe DTU Climate Paper Series” is now available. It can be downloaded from http://cd4cdm.org/Publications/GrandClimateSchemeChina.pdf The title of the paper is ‘A GRAND CHINESE CLIMATE SCHEME’ and it analyses the Chinese climate policies and initiatives. It argues that China can, …

ITUC Online – Climate Finance: Closing the ‘Political Will’ Gap

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION (ITUC) ITUC Online 166/081110 Climate Finance: Closing the ‘Political Will’ Gap Brussels, 8 November 2010 (ITUC OnLine): With climate negotiations reopening in less than four weeks and little hope for achieving a breakthrough, much was expected from the UN-sponsored panel on climate finance, who released its …