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United Kingdom: On climate change, Ed Miliband must match his bold words with real action
2014-02-17 09:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: 'Either denial or dither on climate change will damage the country," says Ed Miliband, perhaps going a bit too heavy on the alliteration. The science, he reminds us, is clear, and he wants to somehow rebuild a national consensus. Time, then, for another "D" word: "decent" Tories and Liberal Democrats, he says, will be expected to muck in. He wants us to understand the true meaning of the recent floods and restore climate change to the prominence it enjoyed before the anti-climax of 2009's UN Copenhagen...
John Kerry to urge climate action in Indonesia address
2014-02-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged the global community to act against climate change in a keynote speech during a visit to Indonesia. He said that there was scientific proof of climate change threatening not only the environment, but also the world economy. He said "the window of time is still open" to prevent the worst consequences, but that it was closing. The US, along with China, is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. On Saturday, both nations issued a joint statement...
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Kerry presses Indonesia on climate change action after sealing deal in China
2014-02-16 10:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Aides said the U.S. secretary of state had chosen Indonesia for the first of what is to be a series of speeches on the topic this year partly because as an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands it is particularly at risk from rising sea levels. "Because of climate change, it's no secret that today Indonesia is...one of the most vulnerable countries on Earth," Kerry said in speech at a high-tech U.S.-funded cultural center at a Jakarta mall. "It's not an exaggeration to say that the entire...
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John Kerry to make clarion call for more action on climate change
2014-02-16 09:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: US secretary of state John Kerry will on Sunday issue a clarion call for the world to do to more to combat climate change, warning the planet is being pushed to a tipping point of no return. In his keynote speech the top US diplomat will highlight the fact that Asian nations, many of them low-lying, are particularly under threat from rising sea levels. Kerry will call on the global community, not just countries but individual citizens around the world, to do more now because addressing the...
Kerry to urge climate change action in Indonesia speech
2014-02-16 09:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: US Secretary of State John Kerry Sunday issued a clarion call for nations to do to more to combat climate change, calling it "the world's largest weapon of mass destruction". In a keynote speech, one of a series planned in different countries throughout the year, Kerry sought to make both a moral and economic argument for greater urgency in cutting greenhouse gases. He warned that low-lying Asian nations and their rich ecosystems were particularly at peril from rising sea levels. Talking...
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