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Top Vatican official: climate change action is a moral imperative
2016-02-02 02:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Mhortly after Pope Benedict XVIs surprise resignation in February 2013, Vatican insiders started making predictions. The next pope, many said, would be starkly different. He would hail from a continent where Catholicism was spreading the fastest. He would be African. He would be the Ghanaian Archbishop of the Cape Coast. He would be Peter Turkson. The choice, we know now, was dramatic. The cardinals in the Sistine Chapel departed Europe for the first time and selected a Latin American Pope Francis...
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Swapping national debt for action on climate change could be the solution we've been looking for
2016-01-08 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Last months global agreement on climate change was a remarkable gift to the world and to future generations. One hundred and eighty-eight countries have submitted Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, setting out what they are prepared to do to reduce emissions and build climate resilience. Developed country governments have reaffirmed their commitment to raise $100 billion a year for climate action, with small and vulnerable countries first on the list for assistance. As the Prime Minister...
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San Diego City Council Approves Climate Action Plan
2015-12-16 20:49:00| Waste Age
KUSI.com The San Diego City Council has approved a sweeping 'climate plan' to reduce the citys carbon footprint by more than half over the next 20-years. read more
Germany to set out climate action plan by mid-2016
2015-12-14 15:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Germany will lay out a climate action plan for 2050 by the middle of next year and is talking to industry groups and trade unions about ways to end coal-fired power generation, its Environment Minister said on Monday. Global leaders clinched a breakthrough deal in Paris on Saturday to transform the world's fossil fuel-driven economy within decades in a bid to arrest global warming. While Germany's green energy campaign has earned it the reputation of a leader in environmental policy, critics...
Time to turn words into climate action: IMF chief
2015-12-12 21:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Words must be put into action to save the planet, IMF chief Christine Lagarde warned, after envoys from 195 nations approved in Paris Saturday a historic accord to stop global warming. The post-2020 Paris Agreement ends decades-long rows between rich and poor nations over how to carry out what will be a multi-trillion dollar campaign to cap global warming and cope with the impacts of a shifting climate. "The Paris Agreement is a critical step forward for addressing the challenge of global climate...
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