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IMF's Lagarde eyes subsidies, simple things to tackle climate change
2016-03-05 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Turning the tide on global warming should be tackled by big and small steps that range from cutting subsidies to riding bicycles, International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde said on Friday. "Removing fossil fuel subsidies would go a long way to cutting consumption," Lagarde said in answer to a question at Massachusetts Institute of Technology about how climate change can be addressed. She had delivered a speech on how to promote growth in the face of an aging population and...
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Impact of Climate Change on Food Production Could Cause over 500,000 Extra Deaths in 2050
2016-03-04 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Climate change could kill more than 500,000 adults in 2050 worldwide due to changes in diets and bodyweight from reduced crop productivity, according to new estimates from the Oxford Martin Future of Food Programme. The research, published today in The Lancet, is the strongest evidence yet that climate change could have damaging consequences for food production and health worldwide. The modelling study, led by Dr Marco Springmann from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food at the University...
Naomi Klein: Climate change will make world meaner and uglier
2016-03-04 12:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Colorado Independent: Journalist, social activist and bestselling author Naomi Klein addressed a packed house at the University of Colorado Boulder Thursday about the battle between capitalism and climate change. The university`s Cultural Events Board and student divestment group Fossil Free CU brought Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, to talk about her latest book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. The books central thesis is that we must restructure the global economy,...
We Can't Rely On Market Forces Alone To Fix Climate Change
2016-03-04 12:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Co.Exist: In discussions about climate change, there's a certain constituency of economists and business leaders who say the market will fix the problem. If we let technology work its wonders, they say, eventually clean energy will prove sufficiently cheap and plentiful enough to make burning fossil fuels a thing of the past. There's just one problem: The market won't. We have enormous remaining supplies of oil, gas, and coal because the technology of exploration and extraction has advanced along with solar...
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Carbon tax wrangling center stage at Canada climate change talks
2016-03-04 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Strains over stalled Canadian oil pipeline projects and Ottawa's push to impose a national carbon price hung over talks on Thursday between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the country's 10 provinces on how to tackle global warming. Trudeau's Liberal Party won an election last October on a pledge to do much more than the previous administration to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, which are climbing as firms exploit Canada's vast crude-rich oil sands. Behind the scenes, Trudeau officials have...
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