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People's victory: Environmentalists cheer Keystone

2015-11-07 00:12:33| Energy - Topix.net

U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to deny approval to the Keystone XL pipeline has permanently changed the discussion on new energy projects, say environmentalists and analysts. "It's premature to talk about other pipelines yet, but if Alberta and Canada don't introduce proper greenhouse gas regulations for the industry, then it's going to be challenging to make the argument that those projects are in the public interest," says Simon Dyer of the Pembina Institute, a clean-energy think-tank.

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Arctic Council, indigenous peoples, prepare for Paris climate change meeting

2015-11-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nunatsiaq: With less than a month to go before global climate change talks start in Paris, indigenous peoples and the Arctic Council are getting ready for the Conference of Parties, or COP 21, the 21st annual meeting of the nation states that make up the United Nations Framework on Climate Change. A commitment to limit the average global temperature rise to two degrees Celsius by the year 2100 through a binding agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions remains the goal of COP 21, which will see 40,000...

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What Is the New Climate Change Agreement For, If Not People's Rights?

2015-10-19 15:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Huffington Post: The foundation on which truly resilient and fair societies can be built was defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That Declaration is the moral compass that guides the normative framework of the United Nations; the reference point for the protection of the dignity of all human beings. Signed in Paris, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the two International Covenants, adopted in 1966, do not, however, include a right to a healthy environment. As John Knox,...

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11.03: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

2015-10-14 00:04:01| Powells Books Events Calendar

Today in the United States, there are more than 500 federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly 3 million people, descendants of the 15 million Native people who once inhabited this land. Historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the U.S. told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples — revealing how Native Americans actively resisted expansion of the U.S. empire. Spanning more than 400 years, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Beacon) reframes U.S. history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.

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