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Japan reduces goal for fighting climate change
2013-11-16 21:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PBS: JUDY WOODRUFF: We will have more on the health insurance industry's response to the president's latest initiative right after the news summary. They kept counting bodies and kept waiting for help in the Central Philippines today. The confirmed death toll from last Friday's typhoon rose to 3,621, with at least 600,000 homeless. Survivors in the ravaged city of Tacloban swarmed the relief helicopters and trucks that did get through. ANGUS WALKER: A scramble for sacks of supplies, hunger in their...
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Dismay in Warsaw as Japan abandons greenhouse target
2013-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Japan shocked delegates at the UN Climate Conference Friday by abandoning its plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020. Instead it will increase them by 3.1 percent. The announcement, made Thursday in Tokyo in the middle of the night Warsaw time, cited the shutdown of the nuclear industry in Japan following the Fukushima accident as a reason for abandoning the 25 percent target. But environment groups condemned this as a mere excuse. I have no way of describing my dismay....
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Japan bails out on CO2 emissions target
2013-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Japan announced Friday that it will renege on its carbon emissions pledge, likely ending any hope global warming can be kept to 2.0 degrees C. The shocking announcement comes on the fifth day of the U.N. climate talks in Warsaw known as COP19, where more than 190 nations have agreed to a 2.0 C target and are trying to close the carbon emission gap to get there."It's like a slap in the face of those suffering from the impacts of climate change such as the Philippines." -- Wael Hmaidan Japan...
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Under-fire Japan defends climate goal at UN talks
2013-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The UN, Europe and the world's small island states reacted with disappointment and green groups voiced fury after Japan on Friday slashed its goal for greenhouse gas emissions. UN climate chief Christiana Figueres expressed "regret" at the move and others at the worldwide negotiations in Warsaw attacked it as a fresh blow to an already-troubled process. But Japan stood its ground and said the about-turn had been forced by the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2010. The country announced it would...
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Japan: Land ministry says climate change may be behind increase in landslide damage
2013-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asahi Shimbun: Torrential rain possibly caused by climate change is the culprit for an increase in damages from landslides over the past 30 years, according to a recent survey. Land ministry officials compiled statistics on landslide damage from 1984 that showed a 1.5-fold increase due to heavy rains. With the frequency of torrential rains expected to increase in the future, there will be greater need for measures to deal with landslides. A recent example of the destructive power of landslides occurred...
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