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Small islands lead charge on Paris Agreement approval
2016-05-17 16:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: From outer space they are tiny and isolated dots on the oceans, green and brown pinpricks on a vast canvas of blue. But at the global climate talks, the coalition of countries classed as small island states are moral titans, fighting a battle they believe is for survival. Vulnerable and vocal, 14 of the 16 countries to have ratified the UNs new global climate pact belong to this 44-strong group, known by the acronym AOSIS. More are expected to imminently approve the deal, part of a strategy...
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Title: Renewable energy: islands lead the way
2016-04-26 12:00:00| Power Technology
Several islands have committed to become self-sufficient by using 100% renewable energy. The techniques that have proven successful and the lessons being learnt could be seen as lighthouses for the transition of larger nations to renewable power.
China to build nuclear power plants on artificial islands
2016-04-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Chicago Tribune: China's quest to fence off a big chunk of the South China Sea may have just gotten another, powerful boost: plans for a fleet of floating nuclear power plants that could provide huge amounts of electricity for the far-flung atolls and islets. While floating nuclear power plants are hardly a novel idea, their use in the South China Sea - a typhoon-wracked hotbed of territorial disputes and increasing military rivalries - would be worrisome both for environmental and security reasons. Chinese state...
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Climate change is drying up small islands, study says
2016-04-13 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabary: Sea level rise severely threatens small islands across the globe. But now, these islands have another cause for worry reduced freshwater access and increasing aridity due to climate change. According to a new study published in Nature Climate, climate change may dry out 73 percent of the worlds small islands by 2050. This is greater than previous estimates which indicate that 50 percent of the islands would become drier. Island groups such as the French Polynesia, the Marshall Islands, and the...
Small islands to face increased freshwater scarcity
2016-04-12 15:11:40| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Island populations are likely to face much greater scarcity of freshwater in the coming decades than previously thought, according to new research. Current global climate models (GCMs) indicate that 50 percent of small islands will become wetter, and 50 percent drier, by the middle of the century, but this new study, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, contends that a more accurate estimate puts 73 percent at risk of increased aridity. The basis of this substantial discrepancy is that...
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