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  • Friday Green Numbers round-up for Feb 4th 2011

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    Tom Raftery
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    And here is a round-up of this week’s Green numbers… Europe’s Energy Member States of the European Union have agreed on targets aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by cutting energy consumption by 20% and increasing the share of renewables in the energy mix to 20% by 2020. The ‘Europe’s Energy’ project gives users a…

  • 2007 was Earth's 2nd warmest year

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    According to NASA, 2007 was tied with 1998 as the second-warmest year in a century. According to the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), the eight warmest years in the GISS record have all occurred since 1998, and the 14 warmest years in the record have all occurred since 1990. The article goes on…