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US and China admit to 'inadequate' climate action as UN warns of mounting threat
2013-04-15 12:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The US and China have announced plans to accelerate joint efforts to tackle climate change, warning that the "inadequacy of the global response requires a more focused and urgent initiative". The two countries issued a joint statement at the end of Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to Beijing over the weekend, featuring some of the strongest wording on the need for action on climate change to emanate from either government. "Both sides consider that the overwhelming scientific consensus...
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G8 Ministers argue climate action must "intensify as a matter of urgency"
2013-04-12 12:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: G8 foreign ministers yesterday reiterated their commitment to driving an acceleration in efforts to tackle climate change, warning that climate impacts will have "dramatic consequences not only on the environment but also on economic prosperity". The communique issued at the close of the two-day meeting of ministers in London, which precedes the June G8 Summit in Northern Ireland, recognises that climate change is a "contributing factor to increased economic and security risks globally". It...
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President Obama's Budget Promises Action on Climate Change
2013-04-12 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: President Barack Obamas proposed budget would make good on the promise he laid out in the State of the Union that he will act on climate change if a divided Congress will not. But the president doesnt end the uncertainty about when the Environmental Protection Agency will take steps to limit greenhouse gas emissions from industrial sources like power plants. And his budget tacitly acknowledges scientists warnings that its too late to head off climate change entirely, instead calling for...
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2013 Offers Best Opening for Broad Climate Action, British Economist Says
2013-04-04 12:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Global political leaders have the best opportunity yet in 2013 to adopt bold solutions that globally address climate change, a leading British economist said April 2. Lord Nicholas Stern, chairman of the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics and lead author of a 2006 report on the economic impacts of climate change, said technical progress at addressing the impacts of climate change has come faster than anticipated, but global political will for addressing the problem...
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PROMISES, PROMISES: Hopes on climate change action may fall short again in Obamas new term
2013-03-25 08:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The issue: Slowing the buildup of greenhouse gases responsible for warming the planet is one of the biggest challenges the United States and President Barack Obama face. The effects of rising global temperatures are widespread and costly: more severe storms, rising seas, species extinctions, and changes in weather patterns that will alter food production and the spread of disease. Politically, the stakes are huge. Any policy to reduce heat-trapping pollution will inevitably target the main sources...
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