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Will Nations Embrace Opportunity to Reduce Black Carbon Emissions and Slow Arctic Warming?
2013-02-05 22:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Arctic nations have an extraordinary opportunity to show global leadership to slow regional warming and melting by embracing a proposal to launch talks on an agreement to reduce emissions of the climate pollutant black carbon. Arctic environment ministers have the power to send a strong signal to the Arctic Council when they gather Feb. 5 and Feb. 6 in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden--only the second time ever--acknowledging black carbon reductions as a priority for regional environmental protection. The...
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B.C.'s Coastal First Nations Walk Away from Northern Gateway Review Process
2013-02-05 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: Coastal First Nations have left the federal review of the Northern Gateway pipeline plan, saying they've run out of money and patience. Executive director Art Sterritt has told the panel the group representing nine aboriginal bands from the B.C. coast and Haida Gwaii has spent more than three times the amount of funding allotted by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency four years ago. Sterritt said the approximately $280,000 they had cannot compare to the $250 million Enbridge (TSX:ENB)...
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Arctic nations' oil spill plans too vague: Environmentalists
2013-02-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Plans by Arctic nations to start cooperating over oil spills are vague and fail to define corporate liability for any accidents in an icy region opening up to oil and gas exploration due to global warming, environmentalists said on Monday. A 21-page document by the eight-nation Arctic Council, seen by Reuters and due to be approved in May, says countries in the region "shall maintain a national system for responding promptly and effectively to oil pollution incidents." It does not say what...
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China's soaring coal consumption approaches the combined use of all other nations
2013-01-31 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Chinese coal consumption surged for a 12th consecutive year in 2011, with the country burning 2.3 billion tons of the carbon-emitting mineral to run power plants, industrial boilers and other equipment to support its economic and population growth. In a simple but striking chart published on its website, the U.S. Energy Information Administration plotted China's progress as the world's dominant coal-consuming country, shooting past rival economies like the United States, India and Russia as well...
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Indias Prime Minister Asks Developed Nations to Use Less Energy and Water
2013-01-31 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday called on developed nations to strive for gains in energy efficiency and to reduce their environmental impact to help protect the worlds poor from a growing paucity of electricity and water. There are genuine concerns that in an unequal world, scarcity of resources would affect the poor more adversely, Mr. Singh said at the inaugural session of the three-day Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, an annual international conference. Key resources will...
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