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Norway pledges to become climate neutral by 2030
2016-06-15 11:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Norways parliament has approved a radical goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2030, two decades earlier than planned. On Tuesday night MPs voted for an accelerated programme of CO2 cuts and carbon trading to offset emissions from sectors such as Norways oil and gas industries, which are unlikely to be phased out in the near future. The minority governments ruling Progress and Conservative parties withdrew their support for the motion at the last minute. But their argument, that ambitious...
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Great Barrier Reef: Australia Pledges $740M To Protect Climate Change-Ravaged Structure
2016-06-13 09:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: The past few months have brought in a raft of news about the health of the iconic Great Barrier Reef -- each one worse than the last. According to recent surveys, over 90 percent of the 1,400 mile structure has been affected by some level of coral bleaching -- an event that occurs when corals, stressed by rising water temperature and acidity, expel the symbiotic algae living within their tissues. This bleaching event, which is the worst in the reefs history, has killed 35 percent of its corals in...
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Australian PM pledges A$1 bln to help ailing Great Barrier Reef
2016-06-13 06:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, facing a tight re-election battle, pledged on Monday a A$1 billion ($738 million) fund for the Great Barrier Reef, where scientists say mass coral bleaching has destroyed vast tracts of the World Heritage site. A report late last month said mass coral bleaching, caused by climate change, had destroyed at least 35 percent of the northern and central Great Barrier Reef and that the coral mortality rate would likely rise. The report cast a shadow over...
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Oil Giant Pledges Major Shift To Renewable Green Energy
2016-06-11 14:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politicus USA: Oil Giant Pledges Major Shift To Renewable and Green Energy to Fight Climate Change Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Follow on Pinterest Subscribe to RSS Search × Search in Site To search in site, type your keyword and hit enter Close
Obama team pledges new money for clean energy
2016-06-02 11:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Government officials from the United States and other nations are meeting this week as part of a search for ways to deliver energy that is cleaner and less expensive, and can help them meet the anti-pollution goals of the Paris Agreement. In kicking off meetings in San Francisco, the Obama administration announced commitments by the United States and 20 international partners to double funding for clean energy research and development, from $15 billion to $30 billion annually by the year 2021....
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