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Wed 12 Dec 2009Small Pacific island challenges Czech plans to extend power station
THE FEDERATED States of Micronesia are challenging plans to extend the Czech Republic’s biggest coal-fired power plant on the basis that they would be endangered by its prodigious carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
The news came yesterday as representatives of other South Pacific island states made an emotional appeal at the Copenhagen climate summit for global CO2 emissions to be reduced to 350 parts per million, with the aim of limiting the rise in temperatures to 1.5 degrees.
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