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Australian army chief says climate change will impact miltary role
2014-02-20 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio Australia: Correspondent: Karon Snowdon Speakers: Lieutenant General David Morrison, Australia's Chief of Army; James Brown, Military Fellow at the Lowy Institute SNOWDON: The new-ish Australian government has brought forward the delivery of a new defence white paper to next year. That's just 18 months - not the usual five years after the last one in 2013. Army Chief Lieutenant General David Morrison says this is a most challenging period for a major policy document, as the world transitions to the Indo-Asian...
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USDA chief: Climate change already hurting farmers
2014-02-05 21:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Climate change is already hurting American farmers and rural residents, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday, warning that the U.S. would regret any failure to adapt and prepare for shifting weather realities. Unveiling a new effort to coordinate the government's response, Vilsack said extreme weather events have already taken the U.S. by surprise, putting ranchers and others out of business. He pointed to the intensity and frequency of recent storms, long droughts, snowstorms and subzero...
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UN climate chief calls for climate treaty next year
2014-01-23 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CCTV: The UN climate chief told the World Economic Forum at Davos that stressed the importance of agreeing to an international climate treaty next year when attending the forum. Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said the world economy was at risk unless a binding climate deal was agreed in Paris in 2015 to lower heat-trapping carbon emissions from coal and oil. "Its important that we get the treaty because the signal to the markets, the signal...
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U.N. climate chief calls for fossil-fuel divestment
2014-01-17 01:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Take your money out of dirty energy and put it into clean energy. No, that`s not 350.org talking (not this time, at least) - that`s from Christiana Figueres, chief of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. On Wednesday, Figueres called on big firms that manage trillions of dollars of investments to dump fossil fuel stocks in favor of greener alternatives, arguing that such a shift would help the firms clients as well as the climate. The pensions, life insurances and nest eggs of...
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UN climate chief promotes green investments
2014-01-16 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The U.N. climate chief urged investors Wednesday to move out of high-carbon assets like oil and coal and into assets promoting renewable energy, greater energy efficiency and more sustainable ways of doing business. Christiana Figueres told the 2014 Investor Summit on Climate Risk at U.N. headquarters that the switch to greener investments is essential to tackle climate change. "The continued and dangerous rise in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is in large part the direct result of past...
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