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Monday 16 April 2012

Electric cars cheaper to run, less polluting: report
Reuters | 16 Apr 2012
DETROIT (Reuters) - Electric vehicles in the United States save money on fuel and are less polluting than most gasoline-powered vehicles, even in places where electricity is made by burning coal, the Union of Concerned Scientists said in a report released on Monday.
 Climate Change
West Africa: Is Sustainable Agriculture Possible in the Sahel?
AllAfrica.com | 16 Apr 2012
[IRIN] Mao - With drought conditions chronic in the Sahel, many farmers give up trying to grow crops and head to towns and cities to find work.
 Climate Change | Climate Change and Development | Climate Change Impacts
No need to wait for the clean air dividend
New Scientist | 16 Apr 2012
Controlling smog and soot is the classic win-win situation, so it's great that the world is finally waking up to the idea, says Drew Shindell
 Climate Change
Regulatory and financial incentives for scaling up concentrating solar power in developing countries
feedproxy.google.com | 16 Apr 2012
Concentrating solar thermal power (CST) has a tremendous potential for scaling up renewable energy at the utility level, diversifying the generation portfolio ...
REDD+, governance, and community forestry
feedproxy.google.com | 16 Apr 2012
In order to examine the relationship between community forestry and REDD+, the Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLG), with support from the International ...
Climate change to herald golden age for British engineering
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 16 Apr 2012
Over 2 million engineering jobs could be created over the next decade as the UK looks to cut carbon emissions to meet key targets, according to a leading academic.
 Climate Change
New levels of idiocy from Tory climate sceptics
Guardian Unlimited | 16 Apr 2012
Eric Pickles wants to discourage people living in cosier homes and paying lower energy bills, just as fuel poverty and energy bills are soaringShooting oneself in the foot is dumb enough, but blowing both your legs off with a self-inflicted explosion of stupidity reveals a new level of idiocy. Yet...
Letters: Let's do the maths on the third runway
Guardian Unlimited | 16 Apr 2012
Your article (Thames estuary 'very worst spot' for an airport, says air traffic chief, 14 April) rightly points out that there are significant air traffic management difficulties if a "Foster's Folly" or a "Boris Island" are considered. But in it Richard Deakin, the Nats chief executive, also...

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