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Climate activists protest ahead of NY summit
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche-Welle: Climate activists have rallied in Australia at the start of worldwide protest to press for overdue steps at Tuesday's UN summit in New York. In Cairns, protestors urged G20 finance ministers to switch to "renewables." Protestors alarmed by rising levels of climate-warming gases gathered in Australia's main cities on Sunday ahead of a key rally in New York. It's the venue of a one-day UN summit to be attended by 120 world leaders on Tuesday. Outside a G20 finance ministers' conference in Cairns,...
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Can UN climate summit make real impact on rising temperatures?
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: New York City will be full of planet-saving pomp this coming week, but short on action to rescue the world. More than 120 world leaders convene Tuesday for a U.N. summit aimed at galvanizing political will for a new global climate treaty by the end of 2015. Environmentalists will take to the streets Sunday in what is being billed as the largest march ever on global warming. Celebrities, CEOs and climatologists will appear at a string of events as part of New York's annual climate week. "Titanic"...
UN summit to test commitment to climate fund
2014-09-21 09:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A global fund created to spearhead climate change financing faces a key test at a UN summit this week when it looks to the leaders of the industrialised world to stump up billions of dollars to fill its underflowing coffers. For the South Korea-based Green Climate Fund, the climate summit in New York on Tuesday is an opportunity for the developed world to demonstrate its financial commitment to securing a new, legally binding global climate deal with poorer countries in 2015. The fund was born...
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Q and A: Whats at stake for PH in climate summit
2014-09-21 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rappler: President Benigno Aquino III is attending the United Nations Climate Summit here in New York on Tuesday, September 23, to highlight the risks that vulnerable countries like the Philippines face from climate change. Just days before the summit, the Philippines suffers from heavy rain and floods from Tropical Storm Mario (Fung-Wong). (READ: 5 things Aquino should say in his UN Climate Summit speech) With 120 heads of state speaking, Aquino and his counterparts are only given all of 4 minutes...
See who's being honored at Great Lakes Bay Regional Women's Business Summit 2014
2014-09-21 01:17:13| Chemicals - Topix.net
The Great Lakes Bay Regional Women's Business Summit 2014 takes place Wednesday, Oct. 22, at Apple Mountain, and four business leaders are to be honored with Great Lakes Bay Business Women Leaders Awards. The annual summit, to take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 4519 N. River Road, includes a moderated panel discussion for businesswomen and men, followed by lunch and an awards ceremony.
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