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Natural gas industry chief: 'Man-made activity' contributes to climate change
2014-05-01 07:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Examiner: The head of a major natural gas trade organization said that human activity contributes to climate change and argued his industry provides a solution to the problem. "I think you've got both natural and man-made causes of. So yeah, I think man-made activity does contribute to that," Marty Durbin, the head of America's Natural Gas Alliance, told the Washington Examiner in an interview at his group's Washington headquarters. "But again, here's the best opportunity we have because we don't have to...
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Africa: UN Climate Chief Urges Greater Support for Developing Countries
2014-04-30 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
allAfrica: Highlighting local climate action happening on the ground in developing countries, the top United Nations climate official today called for greater international support to help these communities harness local knowledge and ingenuity. "There is still a gap between intent and full implementation that will allow vulnerable countries to make the most of their own abilities and adapt at a faster and more decisive scale," Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Christiana...
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EU climate chief urges China to show international commitment
2014-04-23 10:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China could set a new pace for slow-moving international climate talks by bringing its domestic commitment to fight global warming on to the world stage, the EU's top climate change official said on Wednesday. EU Climate Change Commissioner Connie Hedegaard is visiting China this week for two-way talks ahead of a June U.N. meeting in Bonn where negotiators from more than 190 nations will continue efforts to agree a new international climate treaty. Hedegaard said she was impressed by the action...
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Ex-U.N. climate chief installed as new head of GGGI
2014-04-15 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yonhap: A former head of the United Nations' climate change agency began his term on Tuesday as the new director-general of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), the Seoul-initiated international green growth entity said. Yvo de Boer, who served as the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the deputy director general of the Dutch environment ministry, succeeds Howard Bamsey for a four-year term, the institute said in a statement. "Multiple challenges...
UN climate chief urges investments in CCS
2014-04-15 04:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bellonna: Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat, called on the fossil fuel industry to intensify cleaning up efforts, including investments in CCS, in order to limit global warming to the agreed UN ceiling. Figueres calls for an urgent transformation during her speech at IPIECAs 40th Anniversary conference in London on 3 April 2014 come after top scientists warnings that climate change would damage food supplies, slow economic...
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