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Cost of fighting warming 'modest,' says UN panel
2014-04-13 17:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The cost of keeping global warming in check is "relatively modest," but only if the world acts quickly to reverse the buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, the head of the U.N.'s expert panel on climate change said Sunday. Such gases, mainly CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels, rose on average by 2.2 percent a year in 2000-2010, driven by the use of coal in the power sector, officials said as they launched the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change's report on measures to fight...
Renewables, nuclear must triple to save climate, UN says
2014-04-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The world needs to triple the energy it gets from renewables, nuclear reactors and power plants that use emissions-capture technology to avoid dangerous levels of global warming, United Nations scientists said. Investments needed to keep climate change within safe limits would shave a fraction of a percent off annual global growth, the UN said today in the third part of its most comprehensive study on warming. A delay in stemming rising greenhouse gases will cut chances to limit the global temperature...
Act fast to curb global warming, or extract CO2 from air: UN
2014-04-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A United Nations report said on Sunday that governments must act faster to slow global warming and delays until 2030 could force reliance on little-tested technologies to extract greenhouse gases from the air. The study, drawing on work by more than 1,000 experts, said a radical shift from conventional fossil fuels to low-carbon energy such as wind, solar or nuclear power would shave only about 0.06 percentage point a year off world economic growth. "It does not cost the world to save the planet,"...
Climate Change Adjustments Must Be Fast And Large, U.N. Panel Says
2014-04-13 15:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A new report from the United Nations' panel on climate change says major action is needed, and fast, if policy makers want to limit global warming to acceptable levels. There's an international target to control climate change: keeping the global temperature rise to just two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels--that's 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change now says it's technically possible to meet that goal. But doing so will require rapid, large-scale shifts...
World losing ground in climate battle says UN body
2014-04-13 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: An immediate effort to cut carbon emissions and avoid the most severe impacts of global warming would slow the world's economy by 0.06 per cent per year through to the end of the century says the UN body tasked with tracking climate climate mitigation worldwide. The estimate assumes that all countries begin reducing emissions now under an international scheme that includes a "single global carbon price", according to a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). But...
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