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Tutu - Climate Crisis Demands 'Anti-Apartheid-Style Boycott' of Fossil Fuel Industry
2014-04-14 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
allAfrica: Nobel laureate says 'people of conscience' must break ties with oil and gas companies that are destroying planet's future. Archbishop emeritus of Cape Town and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu is saying there is no longer any excuse for not doing everything humanly possible to fight climate change and called on Thursday for an international "anti-apartheid-style boycott" against the fossil fuel industry. In a striking essay and call to action in The Guardian newspaper, Tutu writes: "People...
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Pennsylvania DEP Urges EPA To Consider State Differences When Developing Framework For Emissions Guidelines For Existing Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants
2014-04-14 04:07:34| pollutiononline News Articles
The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) today submitted a white paper to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), urging them to consider state differences and needed flexibility when developing emissions guidelines addressing carbon dioxide (CO2) standards for existing fossil fuel-fired power stations
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Call to move away from fossil fuels
2014-04-13 14:38:56| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: Massive cuts to greenhouse gas emissions are needed in the next few decades to avoid "dangerous" climate change, a major international report has warned. Output of carbon dioxide and other climate-changing gases has increased in recent years, despite efforts to tackle global warming, the latest study from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found. It is still possible to keep global temperature rises to no more than 2C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century,...
World must turn from fossil fuels to cleaner energy to avoid climate disaster, panel says
2014-04-13 07:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The amount of global greenhouse gas emissions soared to "unprecedented levels' over the decade ending in 2010, the world's top climate scientists said Sunday, and now governments must act aggressively to lower emissions or face the most dangerous consequences of global warming. At a meeting in Berlin, the scientists released an authoritative report showing that emissions from human development increased more between 2000 and 2010 than each of the previous three decades. It is a clear sign, they...
Call to move away from fossil fuels
2014-04-12 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: Campaigners have demanded the world moves away from using fossil fuels ahead of a major international report on preventing climate change. The latest report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will set out ways to curb rising temperatures by tackling greenhouse gas emissions. The study is the third part of the IPCC's wide-ranging "fifth assessment report" on climate change. It comes just two weeks after the second part of the fifth assessment, which warned that the effects...
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