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Obamas foreign policy doctrine includes climate action
2014-05-28 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: On Wednesday, on a cloudy spring morning, the president laid out the "Obama doctrine" for foreign policy during a graduation address at West Point. The highly anticipated speech came just a day after Obama announced plans for drawing down U.S. troops in Afghanistan. In response to conservative complaints that he lacks a coherent policy vision, Obama did his classic triangulation shtick of laying out the dichotomy he transcends: interventionists on one hand think we should police the world, while...
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Trade Unions launch global climate action campaign
2014-05-27 12:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Trade unions representing workers around the world have become the latest group to throw their weight behind calls for an ambitious international climate treaty to be agreed at next year's UN-backed Paris Summit, with the launch of the new Unions4Climate campaign. More than 50 unions officially signed up to support the campaign at the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) conference in Berlin last week, pledging to support calls for an ambitious new climate treaty to limit temperature...
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Pacific nations urge climate change action
2014-05-27 08:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Songs of the Pacific have been heard at Parliament House as islanders from countries likely to be most at threat from rising sea levels braved the Canberra winter to highlight the issue of climate change. In traditional dress, the group performed a cultural dance and spoke about their concerns. The delegates, from Kiribati, Tuvalu and Papua New Guinea, are meeting federal politicians and officials representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop and Environment Minister Greg Hunt. They...
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Climate Action: Commission Sets Out Strategy To Curb CO2 Emissions From Trucks, Buses And Coaches
2014-05-27 07:28:10| pollutiononline Home Page
Trucks, buses and coaches would use less fuel and emit lower amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) under a strategy adopted by the European Commission recently
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Albertans want strong action on climate change: Poll
2014-05-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Edmonton Journal: The Alberta government should listen to the large majority that is calling for strong action on climate change -- not just the intense closed-door lobbying effort by oil industry, says the Pembina Institute. A new poll by Ipsos-Reid shows that 76 per cent of Albertans want to see tough action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the oil and gas industry, says the Pembinas Simon Dyer. Only six per cent were opposed. Its clear Albertans think we can have strong climate legislation and a robust...
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