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Climate change summit: Global rallies demand action
2014-09-22 10:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Street protests demanding urgent action on climate change have attracted hundreds of thousands of marchers in more than 2,000 locations worldwide. In Manhattan, organisers said some 310,000 people joined a march that was also attended by UN chief Ban Ki-moon and actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The day of action came as world leaders gathered in New York ahead of a UN climate summit. Roger Harrabin reports.
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310,000 Join Historic March for Climate Action
2014-09-22 08:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The People's Climate March Sunday drew an estimated 310,000 people to fill New York City streets with calls to world leaders for meaningful, immediate action to stop raising Earth`s temperature before we all are caught in an irreversible climate catastrophe. The massive march, echoed by some 2,700 similar events around the world, heralded UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon`s Climate Summit that opens at UN Headquarters in New York on Tuesday. More than 120 heads of state and government as well as...
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AkzoNobel Makes 100 Resilient Cities Commitment to Action to Clinton Global Initiative
2014-09-22 07:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News
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400,000 Converge on Manhattan Demand Climate-Change Action
2014-09-22 05:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: At the Peoples Climate March in New York City on Sunday, a 4-ft.-tall walking banana was passionately articulating his feelings about wind turbines. "They can make things run just by the wind," said 9-year-old Danny Haemmerle, who dressed up as the yellow fruit to attend the march with his family. "And my parents don`t have to pay as much," added his brother Eddie Haemmerle, 11, sporting a lime green wig. The Haemmerles were joined by an estimated 400,000-strong crowd that flooded the streets...
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Thousands call for action in NYC, around globe
2014-09-21 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Tens of thousands of activists walked through Manhattan on Sunday, warning that climate change is destroying the Earth in stride with demonstrators around the world who urged policymakers to take quick action. Starting along Central Park West, most came on foot, others with bicycles and walkers, and some even in wheelchairs. Many wore costumes and marched to drumbeats. One woman played the accordion. But their message was not entertaining: Were going to lose our planet in the next generation...
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