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INDCs: Africa In Need Of Trillions To Combat Climate Change
2016-07-04 08:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
All Africa: It has been projected that African countries need at least $2.7 trillion for mitigation measures and another $488 billion for adaptation to climatic change to be met in 2030, according to the estimates from Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) for adaptation to climate change. Speaking during the Africa Carbon Forum in Kigali, yesterday, Yasser El-Gammal, the World Bank country manager, said the amount is based on countries that have already declared their INDCs, adding that there...
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Climate change makes flood more likely, more damaging, experts say
2016-07-04 06:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Charleston Gazette-Mail: National Weather Service graphic A map from the National Weather Service shows the intensity of the rains that brought floods to the region. Heavy rainstorms like those that caused last week's devasting flooding across a 12-county region of West Virginia are almost certainly made more frequent and more intense by global warming that is fueled by the buildup of greenhouse gas emissions, some of the nation's top climate science experts say. A half-dozen climate scientists from around the country...
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Climate change: big four banks' lending to Australian renewables projects falls
2016-07-04 03:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australias big four banks lending for Australian renewable energy projects has tumbled in the first half of 2016, despite all of them spruiking their continuing support for the sector. Based on public announcements from the banks and their customers, the activist group Market Forces has found only two financing deals were closed this year in the Australian renewables sector. The National Australia Bank lent money to a windfarm in South Australia and both NAB and Westpac helped finance one...
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Small Island States adopt new climate change strategy
2016-07-03 23:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio New Zealand: The Small Island States of the Pacific Islands Forum have adopted a new climate change strategy to ensure their vulnerabilities are addressed as part of the regional policy agenda. The strategy was agreed to by leaders from the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau and Tuvalu at a meeting last week in Palau. The Forum Secretariat's Development Co-operation Advisor, Alfred Schuster, says addressing climate change is one of the top priorities of the strategy. He says the Small Island...
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India: Plant saplings to check climate change
2016-07-03 19:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hindu: Pramod Madhwaraj, Minister of State for Fisheries, Youth Services and Sports, said on Sunday that it was essential to give importance to planting saplings to check global warming and climate change. He was speaking after inaugurating the 'Koti Vruksha Abhiyan` organised by the Department of Forests at the Town Hall, here. Mr. Madhwaraj said that a small country such as Bhutan had 80 per cent of forest cover. There were now variations in the onset of monsoon and seasonal changes. This year, the...
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