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Nations pledge climate action, obstacles remain to summit: France

2015-11-28 19:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Almost all governments have outlined plans for fighting global warming beyond 2020 in a positive sign for resolving a string of obstacles at a U.N. climate summit starting on Monday, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Saturday. So far this year, 183 of 195 nations have issued long-term plans for tackling climate change, meant as building blocks for a Paris accord, with a flurry of more than a dozen in the past week including from South Sudan, Kuwait, Yemen and Cuba. "This is radically...

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Oakland: Hundreds rally for global action climate change

2015-11-22 01:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Contra Costa Times: Ilsa Hadda drove -- which might not seem very green -- to a march and rally that highlighted the dangers of carbon emissions and demanded global action on climate change. But at age 91 and needing a cane, Hadda felt she had no choice if she wanted to join others Saturday at the demonstration that called on the world's leaders to do more to promote clean, renewable energy. "It's very important," said Hadda, who lives in Berkeley. "We want to be able to breathe and harvest our own food and live...

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Jane Goodall urges bold action at climate talks

2015-11-14 00:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Primatologist Jane Goodall called Friday for bold action next month at high-stakes United Nations climate change talks. The 81-year-old British chimpanzee expert said she has her "fingers crossed" heading into the summit in Paris, which will seek a comprehensive deal on curbing carbon emissions warming the planet. "It will be the fourth of these climate events that I've been to and it's a bit desperate right now," said Goodall, a leading environmentalist and scientist who rose to fame during...

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Tories push for climate change action abroad but back fossil fuels at home

2015-11-13 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Perhaps its being forced to think about global matters and the dangers they pose, but the UKs foreign secretary Philip Hammond, like his Conservative predecessor, both understands the risks of climate change and the urgent need to act. In a powerful speechthis week, he said: Taking action to combat climate change is the right thing to do - the conservative thing to do. Hammond had deliberately picked a tough crowd: the American Enterprise Institute, the free-marketeers who have for years have...

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India sees clean cooking as climate action that saves lives

2015-11-11 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ABC: Kamlesh feeds the flames of a crude clay cookstove with kindling, kerosene and sunbaked discs of cow dung. She breathes in the billowing smoke, as she does for hours every day. Her eyes water and sting. Her throat feels scratchy and sore. Kamlesh is one of hundreds of millions of Indian housewives who, with the simple act of cooking family meals, fill their homes every day with deadly airborne pollutants. The constant exposure to indoor air pollution kills some 4.3 million people every year across...

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