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India: Narendra Modi government reconstitutes climate change panel, no member from industry
2014-11-05 15:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: Barely three weeks before crucial negotiations in Lima, the government has reconstituted the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change, reducing its size and dropping members, including sole industry representative Ratan Tata and Centre for Science and Environment director general Sunita Narain. The 18-member council headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will, like its predecessor panel, focus on national action for assessment, adaptation and mitigation of climate change. ET had first reported...
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UN panel warns of 'severe and irreversible' effects of climate change
2014-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KQED: On Sunday, the United Nations released one of its bluntest and bleakest reports to date on the dangers of global warming. The study from The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that the world must cut nearly all greenhouse gas emissions by 2100 in order to head off the worst effects of climate change. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged world leaders to act, saying that the science is unambiguous. We speak with three authors of the report about future impacts of climate change...
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UN Panel Reaffirms That Climate Change Is Irreversible
2014-11-02 21:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gizmodo: The U.N. panel charged with a five-year mission to assess global climate change and provide a necessary course of action in order to stem its negative effects finally released a Synthesis Report detailing their findings in stark black-and-white. The news was all pretty doom and gloom. "Human influence on the climate system is clear," says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), "recent climate changes have had widespread impacts on human and natural systems." By 2100, IPCC has "high...
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Invest now or face irreversible effects climate change, U.N. panel warns
2014-11-02 21:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: The cost of fighting climate change will only climb if industrialized nations don`t take steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the United Nations` panel on the matter warned Sunday in its wrap-up report. In its "synthesis report," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that the hundreds of authors involved in the study were even more certain than before that the planet is warming and humans are the cause. "If left unchecked, climate change will increase the likelihood of severe,...
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Carbon Emissions Need to Be Zero by 2100, UN Panel Warns
2014-11-02 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ria Novosti: Carbon emissions need to be brought down to zero by 2100 if the optimal warming level is to be maintained, a new report published Sunday by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stated. To keep a good chance of staying below 2 degrees Celsius, and at manageable costs, our emissions should drop by 40 to 70 percent globally between 2010 and 2050, falling to zero or below by 2100, Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the IPCC said in the Synthesis Report, adding that it was a window...
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