Home action climate
 

Keywords :   


Tag: action climate

Turning Climate Action into a Reality

2013-05-23 18:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

World Resources Institute: This post was written by Ricardo Lagos, former president of Chile and a member of the high-level advisory panel for the Climate Justice Dialogue. The Climate Justice Dialogue project is a joint initiative between WRI and the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice. This piece originally appeared on Reuters Alertnet. Global emissions just crossed 400 parts per million, an ominous threshold for the climate. Despite this marker, there are signs of new life for international climate action, including...

Tags: action reality turning climate

 

Pennsylvanians Complete 100 Days Of Climate Action To Call For Final EPA Carbon Pollution Standards For Power Plants

2013-05-13 04:27:17| pollutiononline News Articles

When President Obama stated at his second inauguration that we have a moral obligation to fight climate change, Pennsylvanians saw it as a call to action

Tags: days complete power call

 
 

Climate change: swift political action can avert a carbon dioxide crisis

2013-05-12 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The news that concentrations of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere reached a level of 400 parts per million last week might not appear to have immediate significance. The level is only a couple of units higher than last year, after all. Yet the development has undoubted importance. With the realisation that carbon dioxide levels have achieved that symbolic 400ppm figure, it is now clear that two decades of warnings from scientists have fallen on deaf ears and that our leaders have failed completely...

Tags: change action political crisis

 

Philippine government must scale up action to combat climate change, campaigners urge

2013-04-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Business Mirror: Climate campaigners hailed the government on Thursday for its exemplary effort in combating the effects of climate change and making communities ready to face its impacts. But theres still a lot to be done, said Renato Redentor Constantino, executive director of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (iCSC). Constantino, former climate campaigner for Greenpeace Southeast Asia (Greenpeace SEA), said the Aquino administration is on the right track when it allocated P13 billion...

Tags: change action government scale

 

Pacific Islanders hold warrior dance day of action to highlight climate change effects

2013-04-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Indian Country: We are not drowning. We are fighting. With this clarion call, Indigenous Peoples from 15 Pacific Island nations and territories pulled together for a Warrior Dance Day of Action in early March to send the world a message on climate change. Island nations are some of the most severely affected by the effects of climate change as ocean levels rise and water encroaches on their already small territories. (Related: Arctic and Small Islands Fight Climate Change) These Indigenous Peoples held warrior...

Tags: day change action hold

 

Sites : [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] next »