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WASHINGTON -- The top U.S. negotiator on climate change said Tuesday that he is slightly more optimistic about striking a new international agreement to curb global warming after a two-day meeting with the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases.
Todd Stern, the U.S. special envoy for climate change, told reporters at a briefing Tuesday that he is "a bit more optimistic" that the U.S. will be able to broker a new deal in Copenhagen in December.
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Last fall's Detroit meeting on reducing carbon emissions was timely as Congress is in the process of shaping carbon emission proposals and the media is highlighting carbon-related issues. After years of inactivity on this issue, the US may finally be poised to regulate so-called greenhouse gases (GHGs). Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the major source of such GHG emissions, making up 75% to 80% of the total volume. Howard Gruenspecht, US DOE, Energy Information Administration (EIA), provided a GHG policy perspective and evaluated bills to limit carbon emissions that have been proposed in Congress. International cooperation on this issue is essential, Gruenspecht said, since reductions by all major emitters will be required to significantly reduce GHG concentrations. The time horizon over which ...
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...QUESTION: That joint commission had a meeting today. Do you have any sort of readout?. CASEY: ...QUESTION: On the major emitters meeting, so, apparently, Iran is the world's 12th ...
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... International Major Emitters Meeting Produces Some Movement, No Significant Bre...
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.... International Major Emitters Meeting Produces Some Movement, No Significant Bre...
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... emission tests may not be the lowest emitters over time due to their test-to-test variability. 7... for these sources consequently is either meeting a CO standard of 100 ppmv or an HC standard of 10 ...
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... the countries represented at the Major Emitters Meeting - as well as most countries that will not ...
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... a U.S.-Canada Clean Energy Dialogue after meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. White.... International Major Emitters Meeting Achieves Little Progress. An informal meet...
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...'s nearly seven billion anthropogenic emitters. Global economic risk is similarly diffuse and wid..., a faculty workshop at Yale Law School, a meeting of the New York area torts group, and a seminar on...