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Philippines typhoon strikes as nations, activists discuss climate action in Peru
2014-12-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: While loved ones braced for the full impact of Typhoon Hagupit back home, Filipino activists in Lima urged climate negotiators Saturday to act with more urgency in drafting a global plan to limit such potentially life-threatening events. To us in the Philippines, we are not any more debating on whether or not the impacts of climate change are here, we have experienced it, Voltaire Alferez of the Aksyon Klima Pilipinas NGO grouping said on the sidelines of the talks. Year after year we are bombarded...
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Typhoon tears down homes disaster-weary Philippines
2014-12-06 18:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Typhoon Hagupit tore apart homes and sent waves crashing through coastal communities across the eastern Philippines on Sunday, creating more misery for millions following a barrage of deadly disasters. The typhoon roared in from the Pacific Ocean and crashed into remote fishing communities of Samar island on Saturday night with wind gusts of 210 kilometres (130 miles) an hour, local weather agency Pagasa said. The wind strength made Hagupit the most powerful storm to hit the Philippines this...
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Philippines typhoon sparks calls for climate action
2014-12-06 15:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: While loved ones braced for the full impact of Typhoon Hagupit back home, Filipino activists in Lima urged climate negotiators on Saturday (Dec 6) to act with more urgency in drafting a global plan to limit such potentially life-threatening events. "To us in the Philippines, we are not any more debating on whether or not the impacts of climate change are here, we have experienced it," Voltaire Alferez of the Aksyon Klima Pilipinas NGO grouping said on the sidelines of the talks. "Year after...
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Philippines: 'They cannot silence my soul': 11,000 miles from climate talks, a key negotiator waits
2014-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Shortly after Super Typhoon Haiyan ravaged his home country in November of last year, a slim, soft-spoken and totally unknown climate negotiator from the Philippines found himself overcome by emotion when addressing a U.N. climate summit in Warsaw, Poland. Yeb Sao, one of three climate commissioners from the Philippines, broke down in tears as he pleaded with representatives from other nations to commit to reducing planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions in order to prevent future superstorms...
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Schools, offices shut as typhoon bears down on Philippines
2014-12-04 05:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Schools and government offices were shut in parts of the central Philippines on Thursday and residents stocked up on supplies and food, as provinces yet to recover from last year's devastating super-typhoon Haiyan braced for another category 5 storm. Typhoon Hagupit was churning across the Pacific around 860 km (585 miles) east of the island nation on Thursday, the local weather bureau said, packing winds of up to 195 kph (120 mph) with gusts of up to 230 kph. It was expected to strengthen...
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