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Record number of countries sign historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change on Earth Day
2016-04-22 21:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AccuWeather: A historic meeting took place on April 22, 2016, as more than 155 countries have committed to sign the Paris Agreement on Climate Change at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) in New York. The agreement was approved by the 196 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention of the Climate Change (UNFCCC) in COP21 in Paris on Dec. 12, 2015. In the agreement, all countries pledged to work to limit the temperature rise overall below 2 degrees Celsius, but are aiming to achieve a temperature...
World leaders sign on to climate change deal
2016-04-22 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Village Sun Times: The recent El Nio likely played a role in many or all of these, but scientists say climate change nearly certainly did too. The US is a key concern for the Paris Agreement as other countries worry what the next president might do. The non-binding treaty, approved in Paris in December after years of United Nations climate negotiations, aims to slow the rise of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, blamed for putting Earth on a risky warming path. "Today marks a beginning, a historic start"....
Make this Earth Day a turning point in fighting climate change
2016-04-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Free Press: On the first Earth Day in 1970, 20 million people raised their voices for the environment. Their energy sparked a movement that now engages more than 1 billion people, in almost every country in the world. Earth Day continues to be the single largest annual secular event in history. The sheer size of the first protest - along with increasing visual evidence of dire health threats associated with air and toxic pollution - forced Congress to pass some of the world's toughest environmental laws,...
175 states sign landmark Paris deal on climate change, key step toward implementation
2016-04-22 15:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Leaders from 175 countries signed the Paris Agreement on climate change Friday as the landmark deal took a key step toward entering into force years ahead of schedule The historic agreement on climate change marked a major milestone on Friday with a record 175 countries signing on to it on opening day. But world leaders made clear more action is needed, and quickly, to fight a relentless rise in global temperatures. With the planet heating up to record levels, sea levels rising and glaciers...
The True Costs of Change Orders
2016-04-22 15:43:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
While it may seem cliché to say, The only constant is change, that phrase often conjures groans of frustration from contractors in the building construction industry. read more
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