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Climate change talks highlight drinks industry's cooperation efforts - Sustainability Spotlight
2015-11-30 17:57:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
As world leaders convene in Paris this week for the COP 21 climate change conference, the value of consensus, cooperation and collaboration in the face of the climate change challenge - and the threats posed if they are lacking - come into sharp relief.
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China Chokes on Smog as World Leaders Talk Climate Change
2015-11-30 16:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: As Chinese President Xi Jinping joined world leaders for the U.N. climate change summit, millions in his homeland were choking on the most severe air pollution of the year. The air-quality index soared past 700 -- well above the hazardous level -- in Baoding on Monday. Located about 90 miles south of Beijing, Baoding's 11 million residents struggled to see through the thick haze of smog. Poor conditions were also reported in other parts of northern China, including the capital. "Most days...
Tech Billionaires Team Up to Take On Climate Change
2015-11-30 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wired: Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and pretty much every other crazy rich tech leader you can imagine have announced that they`re banding together to combat climate change with a new partnership called the Breakthrough Energy Coalition. Their timing couldn`t be better-or more telling. Through the partnership, the group`s members have committed to use a substantial portion of their hundreds of billions of dollars in collective net worth to invest in early stage clean energy...
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The findings of China's climate change report
2015-11-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Ahead of climate change negotiations in Paris, the Chinese government has released its latest scientific assessment of how global warming has affected and is likely to affect China. The 900-page Third National Climate Change Assessment Report is the work of some 550 scientists and experts, summing up the advancing knowledge of the environmental consequences of rising greenhouse gas levels. Here are the reports main findings on how Chinas environment will feel the effects of global warming: ...
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US is partly to blame for climate change: Obama
2015-11-30 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveMint: President Barack Obama told world leaders who gathered northeast of Paris on Monday for a climate conference that the United States is at least partly to blame for the life-threatening damage that environmental change has wrought, and he urged world leaders to join him in fixing the problem. "I've come here personally, as the leader of the world's largest economy and the second-largest emitter,' Obama said, "to say that the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this...
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