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UN development goals must include climate change
2014-06-17 14:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: This week the UN working group that is tasked with drafting a proposal for new global sustainable development goals (SDGs) is meeting in New York. It is a critical meeting for global efforts to tackle climate change, in particular when it comes to helping the poor and vulnerable countries and communities that will take the hardest impacts from climate change. There is a risk that the UN working group will decide that there is no need for a sustainable development goal on climate change and...
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Miami Beach Convention Center construction could change location of IDEA 16
2014-06-17 07:00:00| Nonwovens Industry Breaking News
INDA board hopes to decide on location at July meeting
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Were failing the fight against climate change because women spend too much time on Facebook
2014-06-16 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: Mashable`s Stephanie Buck is calling upon the women of the world to "dump Kimye" and "tackle climate change." Her call to action is based largely on a talk given by attorney and media correspondent Lisa Bloom last week at the 92Y S.H.E. Summit, which describes itself as "a global conversation and celebration of female potential and possibility that is accessible and relevant to women everywhere." Great idea, terrible execution, as becomes immediately apparent in Buck`s lede: "No one ever said...
Obama calls out climate deniers, asks young people to force climate change issue
2014-06-16 19:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In giving the commencement address at the University of California-Irvine on Saturday, President Obama called on young people to push the climate change issue past its current partisan divide. The speech was particularly notable for Obamas forthright confrontation of climate change deniers. He took oblique shots at the silly pseudo-scientific proclamations of Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.). (Inhofe claimed last year that We`re in a cycle now that all the scientists...
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So You Want to Change the World? Better Read This First
2014-06-16 18:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: History is often made by strong personalities wielding bold new political, economic or religious doctrines. Yet any serious effort to understand how and why societies change requires examination not just of leaders and ideas, but also of environmental circumstances. The ecological context (climate, weather and the presence or absence of water, good soil and other resources) may either present or foreclose opportunities for those wanting to shake up the social world. This suggests that if you want...
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