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In 2011, a Swiss company called World Markets AG bought five million “carbon benefit units
One of the developers of the April Salumei REDD project, Sean Lewis, was appointed
www.reuters.com/article/us-china-environment-waste-insight/china-trash-towns-cleanup-bolstered-by-import-ban-idUSKBN1FD043
The dizzying stench of burning plastic still drifts through the alleys, workshops and warehouses of Guiyu, the southern Chinese town that has long symbolized China’s role as the main recycler of the world’s waste.
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South Africa will use the country’s military to protect Cape Town
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Apple has just announced
This announcement actually amounts to far less than meets the eye, but it could well also mark a tectonic shift in the health care la
www.cnbc.com/2018/01/22/mike-bloomberg-trumps-solar-tariff-destroy-us-jobs-raise-bills.html
The idea of tariffs sharply divides the U.S. solar industry. American panel manufacturers support tariffs, since they would cut competition from cheap Chinese imports. U.S. panel installers oppose them because fewer Chinese imports mean less work putting them in place.
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In a statement that delighted campaigners opposed to fossil fuels, the Bank used a conference in Paris to announce that it “will no longer finance upstream oil and gas” after 2019.
The Bank ceased lending for coal-fired power stations in 2010 but has been under pressure from lobby groups also to halt the $1bn (£750m) a year it has been lending for oil and gas in developing countries.
www.macleans.ca/politics/u-s-government-shutdown-begins-on-first-anniversary-of-trump-inauguration/
Americans awoke Saturday to learn that bickering politicians in Washington had failed to keep their government in business, halting all but the most essential operations and marring the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/congress-government-shutdown-standoff-dreamers-1.4494503
The U.S. federal government shut down at the stroke of midnight Friday, halting all but the most essential operations and marring the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration in a striking display of Washington dysfunction.
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The drought-stricken South African city of Cape Town has brought forward the date when it may cut water supplies to residents by one day to April 21, figures posted on its website show.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/California-regulators-vote-unanimously-to-close-12491203.php?
California’s last nuclear power plant — Diablo Canyon, whose contentious birth helped shape the modern environmental movement — will close in 2025, state utility regulators decided Thursday.utm_content=buffer841c5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer