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With climate deal, activists seeks land rights for native people
2016-04-22 12:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: With world leaders converging in New York to sign a landmark climate deal, activists along with actor Alec Baldwin called on Thursday for a halt to deforestation, a contributor to global warming, by giving indigenous people rights to their land. Keeping indigenous tribes from being pushed off their land would help protect forests that absorb planet-warming greenhouse gasses, they told reporters in New York City. The climate change agreement, which commits world nations to lower greenhouse emissions,...
India's budget for climate adaptation inadequate: Activists
2016-04-11 02:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: Indian government has come under fire after allocating 3.5 billion rupees ($52.8 million) for climate change adaptation over the next two financial years, a sum which environmental experts say is woefully inadequate given the size of the country and the challenges it faces. In a written response to a question by a member of Parliament during a session to discuss the budget, Prakash Javadekar, environment minister, said that the sum allocated to the National Adaptation Fund on Climate Change (NAFCC)...
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Climate Rally for Bernie Sanders Draws 1,000 Anti-Fracking Activists
2016-04-10 17:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Yesterday afternoon, in an old vaudeville music hall in downtown Kingston, New York, Bernie Sanders campaign held a rally for clean energy and safe climate to build support for the presidential candidate and mobilize the Hudson Valley, Catskills and Southern Tier to fight climate change in advance of New Yorks Democratic primary election on April 19. Sanders himself was not on hand--nor was he part of the billing. Nevertheless, more than 1,000 people packed the damp, chilly hall to standing...
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Clinton & climate activists have some real disagreements over fossil fuels
2016-04-07 07:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Hillary Clinton agrees with climate activists that we need to shift our electric grid to run on renewable energy. But she doesn`t agree with some of the more hard-core green groups on how quickly a full switchover can be achieved and what policy steps we should be pursuing to make that happen. Two main points of dispute stand out: Should the federal government continue to allow fossil fuel extraction on public land in the interim? Clinton says yes, activists say no. And do we need natural gas...
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The Latest: Activists Want Prison for Cop in Stair Shooting
2016-03-23 23:54:25| Footwear - Topix.net
The Latest on the case of a New York City police officer charged with fatally shooting a man in a darkened stairwell of a Brooklyn public housing complex : Civil rights activists are imploring a New York judge to ignore a prosecutor's recommendation that a New York police officer convicted in the shooting death of an innocent man in a Brooklyn stairwell serve no time in prison. Loyda Colon, the co-director of The Justice Committee, says the group is outraged by Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson's recommendation that Peter Liang, the rookie officer who has since been dismissed, be sentenced to five years' probation.
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