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UN climate effort under pressure for pre-pact action
2015-06-03 16:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: As frustration grows with the protracted political process of penning a world climate pact for 2020, rich nations face ever-louder calls to take action in the coming five years to stop planet warming spiralling out of control. Increasingly, poor and developing countries and small island states at high risk of climate change damage, are insisting at UN climate negotiations that rich nations slash greenhouse gas emissions even before the envisaged agreement enters into force. With the clock ticking...
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UK renewable energy industry warns of legal action over subsidies
2015-06-01 18:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The UK renewable energy industry has warned the governments new climate secretary that she will face a legal challenge if she oversees the wilful destruction of the industry by retrospectively curtailing subsidies. Later this week, the Department of Energy and Climate Change will announce that the existing subsidy scheme for onshore wind power will be closed a year earlier than it was due to, according to a source close to the process. Such a move would be a major blow to the industry and...
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Doctors union mounts push for government action tackle climate change
2015-06-01 05:04:59| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The powerful doctors lobby group is set to ramp up pressure on the federal government to take action on climate change. Australian Medical Association vice president Stephen Parnis says a working group has been established to revamp the group's climate policy before the UN climate change conference in Paris this year. "We would like Australia's targets and priorities to be informed by AMA policy and influenced by AMA advocacy," he told doctors at the AMA's national conference in Brisbane on...
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Sir Ranulph Fiennes calls urgent action on climate change after witnessing Arctic melting
2015-05-30 22:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Sir Ranulph Fiennes has added his voice to calls for urgent action to tackle climate change after seeing the effects of warming on the planet first-hand during trips to the Arctic. Sir Ranulph, the first to cross Antarctica on foot as well as to visit both the North and South Poles by surface, said it would be suicide to put commercial interests over global warming. He said he knows from personal experience that the warming climate has significantly changed the landscape of the Arctic, melting...
India's killer heatwave deadly warning world we face without climate action
2015-05-30 14:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: As delegates prepare for the Bonn climate talks, India is being struck by extreme heat with a long-delayed monsoon season and a death toll of thousands, writes Liz Hanna. If this is an indicator of the warming world to come, it's giving us all the reasons we could possibly want to act decisively before it's too late. The combination of rapidly expanding population, and increasing extreme heat events reducing food yields suggests a perfect storm is brewing. India is currently in the throes of...
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