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Countries must deal with health risks of more frequent heatwaves: UN
2015-07-01 09:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The UN on Wednesday urged countries to create preparedness systems to counter the health risks of heatwaves, as they become ever more frequent and intense, and dangerous, due to climate change. For the first time, the UN's World Health Organization (WHO) and its World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have joined forces to create guidelines for experts and authorities for how to lower the health risks of heatwaves like the ones currently scorching Asia and Europe. "Heatwaves have emerged as...
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Robert Redford Urges Heads of States to Agree on Climate Change at UN
2015-06-30 21:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: Oscar-winning actor and director Robert Redford addressed the United Nations Monday, urging world leaders to take bold and immediate action on climate change and to adopt a climate agreement at a global climate conference in December. Redford, who referred to himself as an actor by trade but...an activist by nature, spoke at a high-level event on climate change attended by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, international diplomats and climate activists. The 78-year-old, who founded the Sundance...
China works for 'win-win' climate plan, poised for UN pledge
2015-06-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China seeks a fair, global system to tackle climate change and will deliver its pledge to the United Nations by the end of Tuesday on how much it will cut emissions, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said after talks with top European Union officials. Time is running out for China to deliver its U.N. submission in the first half of this year, as it has said it will do. Once China, the world's biggest emitter, has submitted its so-called Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) ahead of U.N....
Pace of climate talks far too slow: UN chief
2015-06-29 19:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday that negotiations on climate change were moving too slowly and urged governments to quicken the pace ahead of the December conference on reaching a new global deal. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius echoed Ban's call, saying a fresh effort was needed to avoid a repeat of the 2009 Copenhagen conference, which ended in failure. "The pace of the UNFCCC negotiations is far too slow," Ban told a UN meeting on climate. "It's like snails, moving (at a)...
Moral imperative to address climate change, says UN Chief
2015-06-19 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Later this evening, the Pope will release a major statement on the environment, in particular, climate change. A leaked draft reveals the Pope will say the world faces grave consequences if people don't change their consumerist lifestyles and he goes into detail about climate policy. It's only his second encyclical since Francis became the Pope and is considered significant because world leaders are set to meet in Paris later this year to try to find a global consensus on...
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