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Jane Goodall urges bold action at climate talks
2015-11-14 00:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Primatologist Jane Goodall called Friday for bold action next month at high-stakes United Nations climate change talks. The 81-year-old British chimpanzee expert said she has her "fingers crossed" heading into the summit in Paris, which will seek a comprehensive deal on curbing carbon emissions warming the planet. "It will be the fourth of these climate events that I've been to and it's a bit desperate right now," said Goodall, a leading environmentalist and scientist who rose to fame during...
Tories push for climate change action abroad but back fossil fuels at home
2015-11-13 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Perhaps its being forced to think about global matters and the dangers they pose, but the UKs foreign secretary Philip Hammond, like his Conservative predecessor, both understands the risks of climate change and the urgent need to act. In a powerful speechthis week, he said: Taking action to combat climate change is the right thing to do - the conservative thing to do. Hammond had deliberately picked a tough crowd: the American Enterprise Institute, the free-marketeers who have for years have...
Action needed from European Commission to help dairy farmers - McMullan
2015-11-12 18:10:47| Agriculture - Topix.net
Sinn FA©in MLA Oliver McMullan said urgent action is needed from the European Commission to help struggling dairy farmers. "Dairy farmers need urgent action from Europe and the EU Commissioner Phil Hogan should raise the intervention price so farmers get a fair price for their produce.
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Indonesia's action on haze won't stop burning: palm farmers group
2015-11-12 14:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Forest fires in Indonesia that have caused choking smoke across much of Southeast Asia will flare up again next year because government action to tackle the crisis is ineffective, a palm farmers group said. Indonesia and the wider Southeast Asian region have been suffering for weeks from smoke caused by smoldering forest and peatland fires, largely in Sumatra and Borneo islands that authorities have struggled to contain. Green groups and palm oil plantation firms say a 2009 law that allows...
Why are oil and gas companies calling for more action on climate change?
2015-11-12 03:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: This year many of us have increased our advocacy on this issue. And last month, companies responsible for a fifth of the world's oil and gas supply in the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) threw their support behind a new global agreement at the forthcoming UN talks in Paris. For oil and gas companies to take such a stance has been described as "unusual" -- and even "unprecedented". However, in fact, in BP we have publicly acknowledged the risk and have been working to address it since the...
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