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Brazil climate change report warns of failed hydropower and crops
2015-11-09 17:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A comprehensive new study commissioned by Brazils government predicts severe drought and crop failures due to climate change by 2040. Brazil now gets 78% of its electricity from hydropower, but decreased rainfall could cut river flows by 38 to 57% to the nations four biggest existing hydropower plants, sharply decreasing energy generation. Reduced water flows to proposed dams in the Tapajós basin, as well as to the gigantic, under construction Belo Monte dam, could make hydroelectric power...
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Efforts to combat climate change rise in China as public awareness drops
2015-11-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: As Chinese officials are gearing up for the next round of international climate change negotiations in Paris next month, a new survey has found fewer people in the country are concerned about global warming. The survey, issued yesterday by Washington, D.C.-based think tank the Pew Research Center, shows that 18 percent of respondents in China say climate change is a "very serious problem," much lower than the global average of 54 percent. Similarly, while 40 percent of people around the world are...
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Climate Change Threatens 55 Million in India's Coastal Areas: Report
2015-11-09 07:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NDTV: Climate change threatens nearly 55 million people in India's coastal areas. This could lock in enough rise of sea level to submerge land currently home to more than half a billion people globally if the temperature spikes by four degrees Celsius, which is humanity's current trajectory, according to a new report. The report published yesterday in Climate Central, a US-based non-profit research and journalism organisation also warned that the increase in temperature could submerge a whopping 145...
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Climate Change Could Drive More Than 100 Million Into Poverty by 2030, Report Says
2015-11-08 22:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Climate change could drive more than 100 million people into poverty by 2030 largely due to difficulties producing crops, according to a new World Bank report. Around the world, climate change could lead to a 5% decline in crop yields by 2030 and 30% by 2080. Disease spread during extreme weather events also threaten to exacerbate global poverty, the report found. Poor countries face the most risk as global warming worsens. For one, regions in Saharan Africa and South Asia will be worst hit...
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World Bank says climate change could thrust 100 million deep poverty by 2030
2015-11-08 21:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Climate change could push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty by 2030 by disrupting agriculture and fueling the spread of malaria and other diseases, the World Bank said in a report Sunday. Released just weeks ahead of a U.N. climate summit in Paris, the report highlighted how the impact of global warming is borne unevenly, with the world's poor woefully unprepared to deal with climate shocks such as rising seas or severe droughts. "They have fewer resources and receive less support...
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