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Portland's Climate Action Plan
2013-03-05 21:51:34| PortlandOnline
Portlands Climate Action Plan (CAP) is a strategy to put Portland and Multnomah County on a path to achieve a 40 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 and an 80 percent reduction by 2050 (compared to 1990 levels).
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Ireland: Political reality stymies action on climate change
2013-02-26 01:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: When recession hit hard in 2009, climate change plummeted down the political agenda as quickly as shares in Anglo Irish Bank. An indication of its marginalisation has been the spectacular decline in media coverage -- the total number of articles on climate change in Irish newspapers fell from 2,780 in 2009 to only 972 in 2012. Yet, at the same time, the recession, especially the fall in activity in the transport sector, helped Ireland to meet its Kyoto targets by the end of 2102. But with far...
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Obamas climate talk may galvanize action in Canada
2013-02-16 12:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Consternation is the order of the day in Ottawa and Alberta. U.S. President Barack Obama has rediscovered climate change as a priority. The federal and Alberta governments have been caught flat-footed. Neither has assigned a high priority to climate change. They assumed that, since the issue was scarcely raised in the U.S. election campaign, Mr. Obama shared their lack of enthusiasm. Wrong. In his inaugural speech and the State of the Union address, Mr. Obama spent many paragraphs pledging...
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Climate change action in megacities - C40 collaboration
2013-02-12 05:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Why are cities so important? Consider this: for the first time in human history, we are living on a planet with a predominantly urban population. Created by cities for cities, C40 advances climate action agendas of the world's megacities in order to achieve meaningful reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks. The organisation started back in October 2005 when former mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, convened representatives from 18 megacities to pursue action and cooperation on...
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Hurricane Sandy Survivors Demand Climate Change Action From Obama
2013-02-12 01:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Hurricane Sandy survivors and environmental advocates met in front of the White House on Monday to demand action from President Barack Obama on climate change ahead of his State of the Union address. "We're here to deliver over 280,000 signatures to President Obama asking for climate action now," said Brad Johnson, campaign manager for the environmental group Forecast the Facts, which, along with 350.org, CREDO and Moms Clean Air Force, helped gather signatures and put together the demonstration....
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