SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea has doubled a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by local industrial and power sectors in 2013 to enhance competitiveness prior to a...
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South Korea doubles 2013 emissions reduction target to 3%
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World's biggest geoengineering experiment 'violates' UN rules
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Plan to streamline solar development on Western public lands gains federal approval
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T. Boone’s wind farm plans finally blow away
Four years after the Pickens Plan was first announced, former oil baron T. Boone Pickens finally sells off his stake in the planned wind farm in Minnesota.
Rosneft considering African oil pipeline
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Record 44% concentrated PV efficiency from startup Solar Junction
Solar Junction has hit an NREL-verified 44 percent cell efficiency, an improvement over the previous record, also set by Solar Junction with 43.5 percent.
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