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California may be a leader on climate change, but it still has plenty of work to do
2015-11-28 12:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When Gov. Jerry Brown arrives in Paris next week for a major international conference on climate change, he will showcase one of the worlds most sweeping programs to cut greenhouse gas emissions. California has perhaps the most comprehensive cap-and-trade program in the world, setting a limit and a price for pollution from factories, utilities, and transportation fuels. The states 2030 goals of getting half of its electricity from renewable sources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 40...
California and Canada working toward joint climate change solutions
2015-11-28 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Ontario and Quebec cities, towns sign climate change covenant Photos show 10 of the worst weather disasters COP21 must address the trade cost of carbon pricing: Don Pittis Alberta's climate change strategy targets carbon, coal, emissions Provinces to set 'more ambitious' climate change targets, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says This article is part of a package of special coverage of climate change issues by CBC News leading up to the United Nations climate change conference (COP21) being held...
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How cli-fi novels humanise the science of climate change
2015-11-28 10:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Statesman: When the Paris UN Climate Change Conference begins at the end of November, the world's leaders will review the climate framework agreed in Rio in 1992. For well over 20 years, the world has not just been thinking and talking about climate change, it has also been writing and reading about it, in blogs, newspapers, magazines - and in novels. Climate change fiction is now a recognisable literary phenomenon replete with its own nickname: "cli-fi". The term was coined in 2007 by Taiwan-based blogger...
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Electric vehicles no panacea for B.C. to meet its climate change goals
2015-11-28 08:18:51| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Gas tax revenues for TransLink would take a hit while greenhouse gas emissions would not decrease enough to hit targets An electric car is plugged into a charging station at Vancity's office in Vancouver. Electric vehicles accounted for 1,200 of the 1.3 million passenger vehicles on Lower Mainland roads in 2014.
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Thousands march over climate change in Brisbane & across New Zealand
2015-11-28 07:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Thousands of people have marched in Brisbane and more were planning to march in Darwin on Saturday, following Fridays 40,000-strong rally in Melbourne. Crowd reports in Brisbane varied from 5,000 to 10,000. The Peoples Climate March a worldwide event took place on Saturday, and organisers said thousands took part in 35 New Zealand centres the smallest being on Raoul Island, where the islands entire population of seven turned out. The Brisbane march was plagued by hot, humid weather,...
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