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Two years after typhoon Haiyan leaders duty to act on climate change
2015-11-08 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In the small fishing town of Salcedo in the Philippines Eastern Samar province, fishermen and women have been struggling to feed themselves since Haiyan first made landfall 20km away on 8 November 2013. Already among the poorest people in the country, their livelihoods were shattered when eight-metre high waves wrecked the coral reef near their area. Related: Nepal earthquake: learn lessons or more will die in future disasters, warns expert Before Haiyan, we were able to catch enough fish...
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Hong Kong outlines ways to mitigate effects of climate change
2015-11-08 09:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Channel NewsAsia: The Hong Kong government has issued a report outlining ways to mitigate the effects of climate change in the city. The "Hong Kong Climate Change" report, the first of its kind, is a consolidation of the work done by both the public and private sectors to-date. It will be presented to the Paris Climate Change Conference (COP-21) later this month. Five years ago, the government put forward an ambitious target to reduce carbon intensity by 50-60 percent from 2005 levels - by 2020. And five years on,...
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Climate Change: Have We Already Gone Too Far?
2015-11-08 09:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: America is now a global leader when it comes to taking serious action to fight climate change, President Obama said from the White House after vetoing the Keystone XL Pipeline bill which would have allowed a Canadian company to build a 1,179-mile pipeline to transport 800,000 barrels a day of carbon-heavy petroleum from the Canadian oil sands to the Gulf Coast. Frankly, continued the President, approving this project would have undercut that global leadership. The Keystone rejection is an...
40 Marin County activists groups to join forces on Climate Change
2015-11-08 08:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC: A coalition of 40 Marin County groups will unite with government officials and other leaders Monday in San Rafael to demand action to prevent additional climate change, organizers said on Saturday. The "Time to Lead on Climate" forum will be held at 7 p.m. in Angelico Hall at Dominican University, 20 Olive Ave., according to organizers. People can learn about approaches to stopping climate change and how individuals and communities can create and advocate for climate change prevention policies...
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Human-caused climate change increased severity of many extreme events in 2014
2015-11-08 04:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Human activities, such as greenhouse gas emissions and land use, influenced specific extreme weather and climate events in 2014, including tropical cyclones in the central Pacific, heavy rainfall in Europe, drought in East Africa, and stifling heat waves in Australia, Asia, and South America, according to a new report released today. The report, "Explaining Extreme Events of 2014 from a Climate Perspective" published by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, addresses the natural and...
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