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Climate vulnerable nations appeal for harder UN goal
2015-11-12 02:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A coalition of nations most at risk from climate change appealed Wednesday for a crucial UN summit to enshrine a much tougher target on global warming, warning that more than one billion lives were at stake. Members of the Climate Vulnerable Forum also pledged to do more themselves to contain global warming, aiming to inspire and challenge powerful countries ahead of the Paris summit starting in less than three weeks. Following a meeting in the Philippine capital of Manila, the group issued a declaration...
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The Keystone XL pipeline defeat is one goal in a game, and we're way behind
2015-11-06 21:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In the first two weeks of the Keystone fight, we couldnt get any press to pay attention to our work to defeat the environmental disaster we knew it would be if it were approved none at all. Because back then in the summer of 2011 everyone knew that we couldnt win. No one ever beats big oil. Now Im sitting here fielding dozens and dozens of phone calls and emails from reporters, because we did: President Obama announced on Friday that he had denied TransCanadas proposal to build the Keystone...
Palo Alto Weighs Compost Plan to Reach Zero Waste Goal By 2021
2015-11-03 21:21:00| Waste Age
San Jose Mercury News The City Council put off a decision Monday whether to require businesses to compost as a way for the city to reach its goal of zero waste to landfills by 2021. read more
Climate curbs will slow temperature rise; more needed for 2C goal: UN
2015-10-30 12:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Plans by about 150 countries to curb greenhouse gas emissions will slow climate change this century but they need to do more to limit rising global temperatures to two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), the United Nations said on Friday. Scientists say warming must be kept below 2 degrees by the end of the century to stave off the worst effects of climate change such as floods, droughts and rising sea levels. National strategies would restrict a rise in world emissions to the equivalent of 56.7...
Nike Unveils Giant Sales Goal, Says Jordan To Move Beyond Basketball
2015-10-14 22:11:20| Footwear - Topix.net
Shares of Nike Inc are higher by more than 30 percent year-to-date and nearly 50 percent higher from a year ago. Nike's President and CEO Mark Parker said the company is "accelerating the pace of innovation across every area of our business."
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