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As the summit starts, islanders consider life on the move
2015-11-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: Micah Puia lives in a shanty town on a dirty beach in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. He is 11 years old, and has lived here all his life. He sleeps in a raised fibro hut with his grandparents and several cousins, attends second grade at a local school and swims in the mouth of the Mataniko River, alongside the community's cotes of pigs and chooks, and where the waterway dumps into the Pacific Ocean. According to some here, Micah has spent his whole life as a climate change refugee....
Paris climate summit could bring historic deal on emissions
2015-11-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The international conference on climate change that opens here Monday is widely expected to produce a historic agreement among nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say cause global warming. Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister, said Saturday that 183 countries accounting for nearly 95% of global greenhouse gas emissions have submitted plans for how they would reduce emissions. "This," said Fabius, speaking to reporters at the tightly secured summit venue, "is radically...
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Obama: Climate summit a 'rejection' of terror
2015-11-30 13:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Combating climate change will prove to be a rebuttal of terrorist efforts, President Barack Obama declared at the opening of a major climate summit in Paris. "What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it," Obama said Monday at the COP21 conference, being held at a highly secured site outside the French capital two weeks after ISIS terrorists carried out a bloody rampage. "We have come to Paris to show our resolve," Obama said, saying...
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Climate change summit: Canada starts regain its green glow
2015-11-30 03:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Four years ago, Canada became the first country to withdraw from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that set global targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A lot has changed since then. On Monday, less than a month after being sworn in as Canada's 23rd prime minister, Justin Trudeau leads a Canadian delegation to the United Nations climate change summit in Paris, eager to negotiate a new global agreement. "Canada is back," said Canadian Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna...
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Barack Obama arrives in Paris UN climate change summit
2015-11-30 03:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: US President Barack Obama touches down at Orly airport outside Paris on Sunday night, ahead of the COP21 climate summit which is taking place in the French capital this week. The summit, due to start on Monday and continue for two weeks, aims to agree on a common global approach to tackling climate change
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