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How Obama can follow Paris climate deal
2015-12-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: President Obamas crackdown on greenhouse gas emissions from cars and power plants made the U.S. a leader at the United Nations climate summit. Now, with the whole world watching, he can give real meaning to the promise Paris offers without bumping into an intractable Congress. The president can accelerate and expand efforts to slash emissions of global warming pollutants in the natural gas and oil industries drilling and distribution systems and improve refinery efficiency. He can issue tougher...
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Paris climate summits best pics in tweets
2015-12-22 10:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The COP21 extravaganza welcomed world leaders, diplomats and indigenous leaders to Paris this month. Here are some of the top shots according to Twitter users.
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Five surprises on the path to a Paris climate deal
2015-12-21 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Around this time last December, I flagged 2015 as a year for carbon pricing, peer pressure and Paris. That was the headline, anyway. Fossil fuel divestment promised to be another theme of the twelvemonth. Lo, it came to pass. Ok, so carbon pricing is still bigger in theory than practice. Peer pressure proved a remarkably successful way of getting climate pledges, from 187 out of 195 countries although as predicted it did not add up to 2C worth of ambition. And it all culminated in the Paris climate...
Paris climate agreement latest sign of trouble for Canadas oil patch
2015-12-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: When solar entrepreneur Jeremy Leggett bumped into Suncor Energy boss Steve Williams at the World Economic Forum in 2014, odds were high that tempers would flare. The two men were among about 40 dinner guests a mix of CEOs, pension fund managers, economists and government leaders. They had gathered in Davos, Switzerland, to talk about short-termism in the financial and corporate worlds and how it undermines efforts to tackle climate change. At one point during the dinner, Leggett recalls...
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Paris talks ignite Toronto climate change advocates
2015-12-21 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Fewer cars, more efficient buildings, greater urban density. These are just some of the ideas being kicked around as cities such as Toronto try to figure out how to meet their goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by the year 2050. Thats less than 35 years away. The success of this months Paris climate talks in early December, where global leaders committed to hold the worlds average temperature increase to below 2 degrees, has given climate change advocates renewed hope...
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