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Redford says fighting global warming is urgent
2015-12-04 21:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: American actor and environmental activist Robert Redford called global warming "an urgent matter" Friday and encouraged mayors to reduce local emissions even as world diplomats are trying to work out a global climate accord. Redford, trustee of the NGO Natural Resources Defense Council, told The Associated Press that the U.N. climate conference under way in Paris is "key." "I think we're running out of time because the planet is running out of resources," he said. "I think now the American...
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Climate deal urgent after weather-linked disasters kill 600,000 20 years: UN
2015-11-23 11:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Weather-related disasters have grown more frequent over the last 20 years, claiming more than 600,000 lives, the UN said Monday, issuing a further call for nations to strike a landmark deal on climate change. The report from the United Nations agency for disaster risk reduction (UNISDR) said floods, storms and other extreme weather events have killed 606,000 people since 1995, "with an additional 4.1 billion people injured, left homeless or in need of emergency assistance." The report noted...
EU energy boss wants urgent push for closer energy union
2015-11-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Europe's energy boss said on Wednesday EU member states lacked sufficient alternatives to Russian supplies and called for "an urgent political push" for strategic power and gas links to share resources. In a first state of the energy union address, which the European Commission aims to make an annual event, Vice President Maros Sefcovic said nations fell short of the Commission's energy aims. Poland with a new conservative government, wants to carry on investing in coal, while a group of European...
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Climate change is an 'urgent' threat, Obama says
2015-11-18 13:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Canada is backing strong warnings from U.S. President Barack Obama about the need for nations to act on the urgent, growing threat of climate change. In an address to a business audience here Wednesday, Obama laid out the threat of climate change, saying the patterns and the science don't lie and that no nation is immune to the consequences. Temperatures and sea levels are rising, ice caps are melting, storms are strengthening, he said. If we want to prevent the worst effects of climate...
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Impacts on oceans need urgent attention in climate talks, researchers say
2015-11-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Warming waters, rising sea levels, ocean acidification and changing water currents caused by climate change are having devastating effects on marine environments, scientists say. But despite these effects, which researchers say will intensify and spread inland as the planet warms, oceans have not been a focus of international climate negotiations. The authors of a set of five studies on oceans and climate change in a special issue of the journal Science published Thursday hope to change that. ...
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