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Don Cheadle: Protect World's Vulnerable From Climate Change
2015-12-11 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Rising seas, catastrophic droughts, severe storms. While these events sound like the backdrop for a blockbuster movie, these are real impacts we're beginning to see across the world, worsened by climate change. In the U.S., California is still suffering from one of the worst droughts on record, while the Carolinas are still cleaning up from October's historic rain and flooding. A recent study found that 96% of Americans live in a county hit by at least one weather-related disaster in the last...
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Heres why market-based initiatives alone wont save the worlds forests and climate
2015-12-11 07:05:50| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A new study looked at Papua New Guinea's Wanang Conservation Area, where villagers work with conservationists in exchange for financial rewards -- the type of market-based project that is the focus of the UNs REDD+ program. When it comes to conservationists working with forest communities, the study found, direct payments may be helpful as part of a broader reciprocal relationship, but direct payments alone will likely fail. Climate negotiators at COP21 discussing REDD+ and other forest initiatives...
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A new space race: satellites could test the world's climate vows
2015-12-11 00:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Scientists from the United States, Japan, and China are racing to perfect satellite technology that could one day measure greenhouse gas emissions from space, potentially transforming the winner into the world's first climate cop. Monitoring a single country's net emissions from above could not only become an important tool to establish whether it had met its promises to slow global warming, a point of contention at climate talks in Paris, but also help emitters to pinpoint the sources of greenhouse...
Toronto Hydro to Launch World's First Underwater Energy Storage System
2015-12-10 21:20:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Located 3 km off Toronto Island and in 55 m of water, sits the first ever underwater compressed air energy storage system. read more
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Delegates at climate talks focus on saving the world's forests
2015-12-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The climate deal being negotiated here is meant to begin a transformation of the worlds energy systems, but it has another goal that has received far less attention: a sweeping effort to save the worlds forests. Dozens of countries put forests at the center of the plans they submitted ahead of the conference, near Paris. As the talks began, more than 60 heads of state emphasized their commitment to forest conservation. If a deal is reached this week and the plans go into effect in 2020, these...
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