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Worldwide electricity production vulnerable to climate and water resource change
2016-01-04 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Climate change impacts and associated changes in water resources could lead to reductions in electricity production capacity for more than 60% of the power plants worldwide from 2040-2069, according to a new study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change. Yet adaptation measures focused on making power plants more efficient and flexible could mitigate much of the decline. "Hydropower plants and thermoelectric power plants--which are nuclear, fossil-, and biomass-fueled plants converting...
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What the Paris Climate Agreement Means for Vulnerable Nations
2015-12-16 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Yorker: Just before negotiators at the United Nations Climate Change Summit, in Paris, released the final text of their agreement, on December 12th, the members of the Alliance of Small Island States started to sing. They continued for five minutes, a group of more than eighty delegates from forty-four low-lying coastal and island countries, through weeping and cheering and bursts of applause, until the chorus of Bob Marleys Three Little Birds had been repeated many times over. The words of that refrain--Every...
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Californias ageing offshore pipelines, just how vulnerable are they?
2015-12-16 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
In August 2015, the national conservation non-profit, Center for Biological Diversity, formally petitioned the US government to inspect Californias ageing offshore pipelines, which are heavily corroded in places. The move follows the Refugio oil spi
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Don Cheadle: Protect World's Vulnerable From Climate Change
2015-12-11 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Rising seas, catastrophic droughts, severe storms. While these events sound like the backdrop for a blockbuster movie, these are real impacts we're beginning to see across the world, worsened by climate change. In the U.S., California is still suffering from one of the worst droughts on record, while the Carolinas are still cleaning up from October's historic rain and flooding. A recent study found that 96% of Americans live in a county hit by at least one weather-related disaster in the last...
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Least to Blame, Hardest Hit: Vulnerable Nations Show Leadership at COP21
2015-12-02 14:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Nexus: As the high-level Heads of State meeting wrapped up, emerging economies and developing nations took the spotlight at the COP21 Paris climate talks. The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), representing more than 20 countries around the world most at risk from climate change, backed the inclusion of a goal to transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 in the Paris Agreement. CVF, which includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Vietnam, also reaffirmed their commitment to a strict limit on global...
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