IEA Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:32:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 IEA: Waiting for Carbon Emissions Agreement Until 2020 Could Have Grave Climate Consequences https://www.greenoptimistic.com/iea-carbon-agreement-climate-change-20130611/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/iea-carbon-agreement-climate-change-20130611/#respond Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:32:36 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=38247 If governments wait for 2020 to renew the international agreement for carbon emissions and climate change, meeting the 2 degrees target will become impossible. The warning was issued by energy experts from the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Monday. In the report, the agency reminds that carbon emissions have increased drastically in 2012 with Japan […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/iea-carbon-agreement-climate-change-20130611/feed/ 0 38247 Carbon Capture Storage Linked to Earthquake Risk https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-capture-storage-linked-to-earthquake-risk-20130402/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-capture-storage-linked-to-earthquake-risk-20130402/#respond Tue, 02 Apr 2013 02:40:06 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=35585 According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), carbon capture storage (CCS) is needed in order to cut greenhouse gas emissions up to 20% by 2050 in an effort to limit global average temperature rise by no more than 2 °C. In the large-scale deployment of CCS, carbon dioxide emissions from sources like fossil-fuel power plants […]

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