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Outrage in Italy over 'shame' of Genoa flood chaos

2014-10-12 20:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Italy reacted with shock and outrage at the chronic bureaucratic and planning failures laid bare after severe flooding hit the northwestern city of Genoa, killing one man and leaving the streets of the medieval port city buried in mud and debris. "The mud of Genoa, shame of a country," read the front page headline of Italy's biggest daily newspaper Corriere della Sera on Saturday after the flooding, which occurred less than three years after torrential floods in the same city killed seven people...

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Barack Obama seeks UN name & shame greenhouse gas reduction pact

2014-08-27 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Toronto Star: Its not what climate deniers want. Its not what poor countries want. Its not even what climate activists want. But in the absence of the slightest chance a gridlocked U.S. Congress is ready to take action on planet-warming carbon emissions, the Obama administration is moving to bypass its own lawmakers and instead strike a global agreement that would include naming and shaming countries that fail to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets. And that could be bad news for Canada, which is...

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Air Pollution App Seeks to Shame China's Most Polluting Factories

2014-06-10 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: A new smartphone app seeks to shine a spotlight on major Chinese polluters by letting users see in real-time which factories are violating air pollution emissions limits. The app, developed by Beijing-based Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), uses data from some 15,000 factories throughout China that are now required to report emissions to local officials and the Environment Ministry on an hourly basis. The government made all the data public at the beginning of this year, but now,...

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