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United Kingdom: Cameron pledges 6bn to fight global climate change
2015-09-28 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: David Cameron has said that 6 billion of British taxpayers' money is to be spent tackling global climate change, promising that the UK will play its part. In a move which could anger Tory backbenchers, the Prime Minister increased the amount of aid money going to the International Climate Fund by around 50 per cent. Britain will put 5.8 billion into the fund between April 2016 and March 2021 far higher than the 3.87bn spent over the last five years. Mr Cameron said the commitment...
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Strange link between global climate change & rise of the robots
2015-09-08 16:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Weve already heard of all the nasty consequences that could occur if the pace of global climate change doesnt abate by the year 2050 -- we could see wars over water, massive food scarcity, and the extinction of once populous species. Now add to the mix a potentially new wrinkle on the abrupt and irreversible changes superintelligent robots would be just about ready to take over from humanity in the event of any mass extinction event impacting the planet. In fact, according to a mind-blowing...
GOP's Plan to Undermine Global Climate Talks
2015-09-08 13:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: Top Republican lawmakers are planning a wide-ranging offensive - including outreach to foreign officials by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office - to undermine President Barack Obama's hopes of reaching an international climate change agreement that would cement his environmental legacy. The GOP strategy, emerging after months of quiet discussions, includes sowing doubts about Obama's climate policies at home and abroad, trying to block key environmental regulations in Congress, and...
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Ten Carbon Majors Support Global Climate Deal
2015-09-08 02:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Ten of the worlds largest fossil fuel producers support an international deal at this years UN climate conference, COP21, in Paris that will limit climate warming to 2 degrees Celsius, according to the nonprofit Carbon Disclosure Project, CDP. Acting on behalf of investors, CDP asked companies, Would your organizations board of directors support an international agreement between governments on climate change, which seeks to limit global temperature rise to under 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial...
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Why Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change could be a game changer on Global Warming
2015-08-23 00:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Kos: Pope Francis may have soaked up headlines earlier this summer when he published a whopping 192-page encyclical on climate change, but this week Muslims issued a declaration that could influence an even larger population than the Catholic decree. The declaration, announced Tuesday as part of the two-day International Islamic Climate Change Symposium in Istanbul, further exemplifies the trend of faith-based climate activism ahead of the U.N. climate change summit in December. Like the papal encyclical,...
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