je.st
news
Tag: climate action
Evangelists Call for Political Action on Climate Change in Florida
2014-05-21 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A group of Evangelical Christians in Florida are trying to convince Governor Rick Scott to create an adaptive plan to address and prepare for the effects of climate change, claiming that they believe they can reach out to him with a common understanding about of Christian values. The Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) is currently collecting signatures from Florida residents for a petition that they hope will convince Gov. Scott that climate change in the state is a pressing issue that must...
Tags: change
call
action
political
Energy Secretary: Climate action critical
2014-05-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Friday changing the way the country gets its energy is critical to protecting the climate, boosting the economy and enhancing national security. During an energy summit at Middlebury College, Moniz told the state's congressional delegation, Gov. Peter Shumlin and industry officials that President Barack Obama's administration is committed to finding ways to reduce carbon emissions. Moniz said the effects of climate change already are being felt, and he focused...
Tags: action
energy
critical
secretary
The $4 Trillion Mistake: Climate Action Delayed Is Climate Action Denied
2014-05-14 21:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: The good news is that the new report "confirms that global population and economic growth can be decoupled from energy demand." The IEA says that an aggressive effort to deploy renewable energy and energy efficiency (and energy storage) to keep global warming below the dangerous threshold of 2°C - their 2DS scenario - would require investment in clean energy of only about 1% of global GDP per year. But it would still be astoundingly cost-effective: The $44 trillion additional investment needed...
Tags: action
mistake
climate
delayed
Climate Action an All Hands on Deck Situation
2014-05-11 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: This is actually a reunion for Greenpeace USA and Annie. She was a toxics campaigner for Greenpeace International starting in 1988. After leaving, she went on to campaign all over the world for the environmental and justice movements. It all culminated with the The Story of Stuff Project and its eight great movies. In this exclusive interview, we let Annie do the talking. Greenpeace: The National Climate Assessment came out this week. It states what many already take as a given: that the effects...
Tags: action
situation
hands
climate
UN Ban urges climate action ahead of New York Summit
2014-05-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Sunday he was hopeful that a goal of limiting global temperature rises to a maximum 2 degrees Celsius could be achieved, but urged governments to take practical action before it was too late. "We have to ask the leaders to commit to bold ambitious targets and we will ask them to accelerate their actions on the ground," Ban told a two-day conference on climate change in the United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi. Ban said both meetings would be "solution...
Sites : [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] next »