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Leonardo DiCaprio Talks About Climate Change at UN Summit
2014-09-24 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: Only days after Emma Watson spoke at the United Nations about gender equality, fellow thespian Leonardo DiCaprio delivered an impassioned speech about climate change to guests at the UN Climate Summit 2014. As an actor I pretend for a living, he said. I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe that mankind has looked at climate change in that same way, as if it were a fiction, as if pretending that climate change wasnt real would somehow make it go away. DiCaprio...
UN climate summit: China pledges emissions action
2014-09-23 21:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: China has pledged for the first time to take firm action on climate change, telling a UN summit that its emissions, the world's highest, would soon peak. Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli also said China would make its economy much more carbon efficient by 2020. US President Barack Obama said climate change was moving faster than efforts to address it, and the US and China had a responsibility to lead other nations. The summit was the largest high-level climate meeting since 2009. Hosted by UN...
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Leonardo DiCaprio tells UN summit 'climate change not a fiction'
2014-09-23 16:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The Hollywood actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, has told a UN climate change meeting in New York that climate change was not ''a fiction''. The star, who has been appointed as a United Nations representative on climate change, said there was ''evidence that accelerated climate change is here, right now''. ''Droughts are intensifying, our oceans are acidifying...we're seeing extreme weather events in the west Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets melting at unprecedented rates,'' he said. The aim of the meeting...
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UN climate change summit: Stymied at home, Obama looks for climate support overseas
2014-09-23 14:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science: When it comes to energy and climate policy, President Obama will likely have more luck reaching across borders than he will reaching across the aisle. This week, Mr. Obama is pressuring world leaders to reduce global emissions as he and more than 100 other heads of state meet for the UN climate change summit in New York. The summit comes as a reluctant Congress at home largely opposes Obamas goals of promoting renewable energy and protecting against extreme weather associated with climate change....
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UN Climate Summit: China, India leaders are no shows. Why that's ok
2014-09-23 10:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Can a UN Climate Summit about reducing global carbon emissions be successful if leaders from two of th e largest polluters don't show up? China President Xi Jinping and India Prime Minister Narendra Modi won't be joining heads of state from over 120 countries as they plan for a cleaner energy future at a UN Climate Summit in New York Tuesday. Some are concerned about their absence at the New York climate talks widely regarded as a critical preparatory meeting for achieving a negotiated agreement...
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