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Top Worry of Millennials around the world: Income inequality and climate change
2015-11-04 13:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Red Alert: Millennials around the world are less concerned about themselves and say theyre most worried about the poor and the planet. The World Economic Forum released a study on Oct. 25 that asked 1,000 millennials from 125 countries about their personal goals and worries for society. A supermajority of 65 percent said that one of their top three goals was pursuing a career that made a difference in their city or country. The other top goals were career advancement and finding opportunities to learn. ...
Cities, not nations, lead fight against climate change
2015-11-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
South China Morning Post: It is cities, not nations, that will play a bigger role in preventing the worlds temperatures from rising more than two degrees following landmark climate talks in Paris, according to an official from a global network on climate change. Government leaders and representatives from around the world will meet in the French capital at the end of this month and into December with hopes of producing a legally binding agreement to cap global warming. The mayors of the world are those in the best...
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Arctic Council, indigenous peoples, prepare for Paris climate change meeting
2015-11-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nunatsiaq: With less than a month to go before global climate change talks start in Paris, indigenous peoples and the Arctic Council are getting ready for the Conference of Parties, or COP 21, the 21st annual meeting of the nation states that make up the United Nations Framework on Climate Change. A commitment to limit the average global temperature rise to two degrees Celsius by the year 2100 through a binding agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions remains the goal of COP 21, which will see 40,000...
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Three quarters of Australians believe climate change is real
2015-11-03 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Research by the CSIRO has found more than three quarters of Australians agree climate change is happening, with divisions emerging along political lines. The survey of almost 18,000 people over five years showed 78 per cent of Australians believed in climate change. Dr Zoe Leviston from the CSIRO said there appeared to be very few differences when demographics were taken into account. "It was quite interesting to see that things like income, age, gender, really didn't have a noticeable impact...
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What Economists Don't Get About Climate Change
2015-11-03 14:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Economists tend to see climate change as a big optimization problem: Weigh the potential costs of future disasters against the benefits of fossil-fueled economic growth, and find a price of carbon that will balance the two. Unfortunately, it's an illusory goal. Consider, for example, a recent study by Yale University's Kenneth Gillingham and colleagues. Using a collection of so-called "integrated" models of climate and the economy, they seek to get a better handle on how various uncertainties...
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