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2°C Challenge Communiqué
The 2°C Challenge Communiqué is awaiting signatures prior to the UN climate conference in Durban. This is the fifth of such statements, which is being signed by business leaders in a bid for governments to break the deadlock in international negotiations and take necessary action at a national level to ensure a successful transition to green growth and a climate resilient economy.
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Everything comes at a price: benefitting from volcanoes?
Volcanoes are not only attractive, fascinating objects. They also give fertile soil, ore deposits and cheap geothermal energy, but all this comes at a price: sometimes they kill, destroy and severely interrupt air traffic. By studying the internal chemistry of Indonesia’s subduction zone volcanoes, Professor Valentin Troll is hoping to learn just which of these dramatic landscapes can provide us with geothermal energy
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The energy for change
As commissioner for Energy, Günther Oettinger is coordinating a European energy policy that involves close cooperation with other DGs and in particular the new Climate Action and Transport commissioners. Here he talks to William Davis about the challenges he sees ahead.
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A second earth discovered
The existence of an Earth-like planet has been confirmed by astronomers. Kepler 22-b has been discovered to be orbiting a star not unlike our Sun, located approximately 600 light years away. It is around 2.4 times the size of Earth and has a temperature of about 22C. Despite it’s resemblance to Earth, the Keplar team are as of yet unsure whether Kepler 22-b is made of rock, gas or liquid.