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'Loss and damage' creeps in from the cold at UN climate talks
2015-12-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: When Hurricane Katrina brought storm surges crashing into New Orleans in August 2005, Beverly Wright lost all her family photographs, going back to her great grandparents, in the flood. "You cannot replace all of the memorabilia, or pictures you cherish and pass on from person to person," said the executive director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice. "There are things that cannot be replaced monetarily." She gave this as an example of "loss and damage" from climate change,...
#COP21 survey: Most of the public unaware and pessimistic about UN climate talks
2015-12-02 11:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A new public survey by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers has found that the majority of the UK public (67%) is unaware that UN climate change talks are taking place in Paris this month. Once all survey participants were made aware of the UN summit, there was also pessimism about the potential for a climate deal to be reached ? with just 19% saying they were confident a deal will be agreed, compared with 64% who said they were not confident it could be reached. According to the poll, the...
Climate talks: 4C rise will have dire effect on world hunger, UN warns
2015-12-01 15:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: El Nios, climate change and increasing conflict linked to prolonged droughts and extreme weather are leaving the world unable to cope with the food needs of millions of people, the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned. The UN agency, which last year appealed for $8.5bn from governments to provide food aid to people in 80 or more countries but only received $5.5bn, said donors had never been more generous but that the challenges were now outpacing available funds. The humanitarian system...
"No Planet B", marchers worldwide tell leaders before UN Climate Change Conference
2015-11-29 21:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
DNA: More than half a million people from Australia to Paraguay joined the biggest day of climate change activism in history on Sunday, telling world leaders gathering for a summit in Paris, there is "No Planet B" in the fight against global warming. In the French capital, where demonstrations were banned by the authorities after attacks by Islamic State militants killed 130 people on November 13, activists laid out more than 20,000 shoes in the Place de la Republique to symbolize absent marchers on...
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China to stake leadership claim on climate change, emissions reduction at Paris UN conference
2015-11-28 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Despite pumping as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the next four biggest polluters combined, China will use this week's UN conference in Paris to stake a global leadership claim on climate change. Six years on from the disappointing Copenhagen conference, where China was seen by the West as largely impeding a binding agreement, Beijing is bringing a raft of ambitious commitments to the table. Chief among them, a state-led investment drive for renewables with an aim of sourcing 20...
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