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Day: January 17, 2014

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UN warns climate action may cost world GDP 4%

According to a draft United Nations report, designed to influence efforts to draft a global-warming treaty, the cost of holding rising temperatures to safe levels

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China’s big polluters exceed emission limits

A group of NGOs and research institutes say online emissions figures reported by most coal-fired power plants and factories in China have surpassed government limits.

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Clean energy investment falls for second year

A new report shows that investment in renewable energy and energy smart technologies dropped last year, the second consecutive year for such a fall. Figures

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Dangerous pollution hits the Chinese capital

China’s capital, Beijing, has been shrouded in dangerous smog, cutting visibility down to a few hundred metres. China warned people in northern regions, including the