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Climate-threatened nations seek tougher temperature goal Paris deal
2015-11-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A coalition of more than 40 countries most at risk from climate change has called for a new U.N. deal, due to be agreed in Paris next month, to enshrine a goal of keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, warning over a billion people are in danger. The Climate Vulnerable Forum said sticking to a 2010 goal to limit temperature rise to 2 degrees (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels would leave countries that are highly exposed to climate change even more vulnerable to threats such...
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Declining snowpacks may cut many nations' water
2015-11-12 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Gradual melting of winter snow helps feed water to farms, cities and ecosystems across much of the world, but this resource may soon be critically imperiled. In a new study, scientists have identified snow-dependent drainage basins across the northern hemisphere currently serving 2 billion people that run the risk of declining supplies in the coming century. The basins take in large parts of the American West, southern Europe, the Mideast and central Asia. They range from productive U.S. farm land...
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G20 nations spend $452 bn a year supporting fossil fuels: study
2015-11-12 15:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The G20 group of major economies spend $452 billion per year supporting fossil fuel industries, despite their primary role in causing climate change, according to a study released on Thursday. The report, which comes ahead of a crunch UN meeting in Paris to try to forge a global deal to avoid disastrous levels of climate change in December, accused governments of undermining their own climate change policies. "G20 governments are handing out approximately $452 billion a year to prop up the production...
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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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NFU Salutes Our Nations Farmer Veterans
2015-11-11 13:00:38| National Farmers Union
By Zack Clark, government relations representative, National Farmers Union As we honor our countrys military veterans today, we should also reflect on the contributions they have made, or could make, to feeding our nation through agriculture. Today, of the 21.6 million veterans alive, more than six million live in rural America, with a significant portion
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