CleanTechnica » Christiana Figueres http://cleantechnica.com Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:48:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 Falling Oil Prices Will Not Bother Solar http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/14/falling-oil-prices-will-bother-solar/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/14/falling-oil-prices-will-bother-solar/#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2014 13:29:36 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76283 About two weeks back, the OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) oil producers’ cartel decided not to cut output at its meeting in Vienna. Since then, oil prices have plummeted to a record five-year low. Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter and OPEC’s most influential member could potentially support global oil prices by cutting

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/09/cop20-climate-talks-start-getting-serious-kerry-fly/feed/ 1 Key Players Open Lima COP20 UN Climate Change Talks (VIDEO) http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/02/key-players-open-lima-cop20-un-climate-change-talks-video/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/02/key-players-open-lima-cop20-un-climate-change-talks-video/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2014 17:13:09 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=75645 If you’ve been following the news, you probably know that the UN’s annual mega-conference to address  climate change—officially, the 20th Conference of the Parties (COP20) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—started in Lima, Peru, yesterday morning, 1 December 2014. (For more information on the runup to the Lima COP20 conference, follow this

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/02/key-players-open-lima-cop20-un-climate-change-talks-video/feed/ 1 Obama & China President Xi Jinping Unveil CO2 Emission Reduction Targets http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/12/obama-china-president-xi-jinping-co2-emission-reductions/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/12/obama-china-president-xi-jinping-co2-emission-reductions/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:21:39 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=74870 In a follow-up to the major agreements between the United States and China announced this morning, here’s more detail on the climate change issues the two world leaders discussed. They have had constructive dialogue on these points for several years, and The New York Times reports that the agreements culminated from talk over the past nine months.

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