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Future of low carbon energy : In the News
China unveils emissions targets ahead of Copenhagen
- Source: BBC News
26th November 2009
China has unveiled its first firm target for limiting greenhouse gas emissions, two weeks before a global summit on climate change in Copenhagen. Beijing said it would aim to reduce its "carbon intensity" by 40-45% by the year 2020, compared with 2005 levels.
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Obama is going to Copenhagen
- Source: COP 15
- 25th November 2009
The US President will be making a one-day stopover during the first part of the UN climate conference in the Danish capital where he is expected to announce an American emissions reduction target of 17 percent.
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Britain’s renewable energy targets are ‘physically impossible’, says study
- Source: The Guradian
- 12th November 2009
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers' 'battle plan' for climate change includes geo-engineering and nuclear power
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UK to embrace nuclear says Ed Miliband
- Source: BBC News
- 9th November 2009
Ed Miliband has said the UK cannot afford to "say no" to nuclear power as he prepares to announce plans to fast-track a new generation of reactors.
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Light down a wire for solar power
- Source: BBC News
- 5th November 2009
Solar power could be produced cheaply in specially designed optical fibres, say researchers. The work, published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, makes use of nanometre-scale wires built around optical fibres like bristles.
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Money is the key to the success of Copenhagen
- Source: The Independent
- 3rd November 2009
Developing countries want up to £245bn to reduce their carbon emissions while the EU thinks it should cost them as little as £20bn.
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Interactive Climate map shows world after 4C rise
- Source: The Guardian
- 22nd October 2009
A map launched at the Science Museum in London has been developed using the latest peer-reviewed science from the Met Office Hadley Centre and other leading impact scientists. It shows that the land will heat up more quickly than the sea, and high latitudes, particularly the Arctic, will have larger temperature increases
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The UK government unveils a new climate change map
- Source: The Guardian
- 22nd October 2009
Foreign secretary David Miliband, his brother, the energy and climate change secretary Ed Miliband, and the government's chief scientific advisor John Beddington describe what the world would be like after a 4C rise in temperature.
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