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2015 Community Summit Visioning Plan
2014-09-26 21:08:52| PortlandOnline
This document has been drafted to compile and share visioning input from Community Partners and ONI staff PDF Document, 86kbCategory: 2015 Community Summit
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New York summit: what it means for climate treaty prospects
2014-09-26 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: The worlds superpowers have finally woken from their climate coma. That was the message from the UKs secretary of state for energy and climate change Ed Davey, speaking on the sidelines of the UNs climate summit in New York. If you talk to the Americans, you hear a message you have never heard before. Real leadership and action, he told RTCC. If you talk to the Chinese the issue of air pollution in some of their big cities has awoken the people and government to the environmental challenge....
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UN climate summit reveals India's hypocrisy on saving forests
2014-09-26 05:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On Tuesday, Indias minister for environment, forests, and climate change, Prakash Javadekar, scoffed at the idea of the country reducing emissions to counter climate change. He held the US chiefly responsible for the climate crisis, and therefore it had to bear the responsibility for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. That has been Indias position on climate change at international negotiations for a while. Developed nations have polluted the atmosphere and brought the planet to the crisis it...
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Four countries pledge to restore 30 million hectares of degraded lands at UN Summit
2014-09-25 23:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: In 2011, Germany and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature launched the Bonn Challenge, which pledged to restore 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested lands by 2020. Several countries have already made commitments-including the U.S.-but this week at the UN Climate Summit four more jumped on board. The Democratic Republic of the Congo committed to restoring 8 million hectares, Uganda committed to 2.5 million hectares, and Guatemala committed to restoring 1.2 million hectares....
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Poet brings world leaders to tears at UN Climate Summit
2014-09-25 17:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The UN Climate Summit has been graced by the likes of actor Leonardi DiCaprio and US President Barack Obama, but the haunting words of a young mother from a tiny Pacific Island nation have made the most lasting impression. Spoken-word poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, 26, from the Marshall Islands, was just one of four people chosen from 544 nominees to address the opening of the UN Climate Summit in New York. In front of an audience of 120 state dignitaries, Jetnil-Kijiner performed a poem she wrote...
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