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Boston mayor heading to China for climate change summit
2016-06-05 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is heading to China this week to talk about the challenge that climate change poses to urban areas. The Democrat will join a delegation that includes officials from 20 U.S. municipalities taking part in a low-carbon cities summit in Beijing on Tuesday and Wednesday. Walsh says Boston has made significant progress, but is always looking for other ways to better prepare for and adapt to the consequences of climate change. The summit is billed as an opportunity for officials...
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Interview: Caribbean Summit to call for unity to tackle climate change
2016-06-01 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: An upcoming summit attended by heads of state and government of the Caribbean countries on Saturday will call for unity to tackle the climate change problem. "Our main focus is to strengthen the unity of the Caribbean and to build a dialogue in order to face the negative impacts of climate change," Alfonso Munera, secretary general of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), told Xinhua in an interview on Tuesday. The ACS is a pan-national body in charge of consultation, cooperation and concerted...
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UN's Ban decries G7 absence at humanitarian summit
2016-05-27 16:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wingate Wire: Convened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and hosted by Government of Turkey, the World Humanitarian Summit (COMMITMENT) is taking place on May 23-24, a Foreign Office statement said. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila told the World Humanitarian Summit gathering that included German Chancellor Angela Merkel: "Part of giving faith-based organisations a bigger role is to recognise that people must become agents of the rebuilding of their lives and not be made to feel simply like beneficiaries...
What the World Humanitarian Summit means for Climate Change
2016-05-27 11:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: I joined about 6000 other delegates from around the world this week for the first ever World Humanitarian Summit. While 350.org doesn't provide humanitarian aid, we're increasingly concerned with just how hard climate change is biting, and committed to supporting people-oriented responses to the impacts of climate change. With 2016 already carrying a 99 percent chance that it will be the hottest year on record and is close to breaching 1.5 degrees C of warming, we've now moved beyond the early...
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Vancouver, BC Startup Lays Out Green Freight Vision For G7 Summit
2016-05-27 06:05:25| pollutiononline Home Page
Freightera, North America's online freight marketplace, has just released "A Green Future for Freight" in the 2016 G7 Summit issue of Climate Change: The New Economy
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