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NFU Appreciates Interagency Climate Change and Food Security Report, Suggests Contributors Also Examine Food System Consolidation and Climate Change
2015-10-09 15:45:43| National Farmers Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 9, 2015 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome@nfudc.org WASHINGTON (October 9, 2015) National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson said the organization of 200,000 family farmers, ranchers and fishermen appreciated the recent interagency report on climate change and food security, noting that it will be helpful in making future policy decisions
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UN official praises "huge progress" in fight against climate change
2015-10-09 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: The world has made huge progress in its fight against climate change in the past five or six years, UN climate talks chief said on Wednesday. Speaking at a panel discussion on climate change in Lima, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Management, praised the work that has been done, but noted it was not enough. "Five or six years ago, we were heading for an increase of four or five degrees in the global temperature, which would have been...
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20 Nations Vulnerable to Climate Change Form an Action Coalition
2015-10-09 10:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Representatives from 20 nations particularly subject to the consequences of climate change have gathered in Lima, the capital of Peru, to establish a coalition to fight global warming. The group, which will call itself the Vulnerable 20 (V-20), comprises low- and middle-income nations from Central America, the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania, Reuters reported. They range from larger states with growing economies like Vietnam to tiny island nations like Vanuatu. The common thread...
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Change of Directors at CCA Industries
2015-10-09 07:00:00| Happi Breaking News
Cooley and Biglari return to the board.
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Climate change behind mysterious kidney disease: Study
2015-10-09 03:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: A mysterious kidney disease that has killed over 20,000 people in Central America since 2002, and now spreading to other countries including India, may be caused by chronic, severe dehydration linked to global climate change, says a new study. "This could be the first epidemic directly caused by global warming," said one of the researchers Richard Johnson, professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in the US. So far, the manual labourers on sugar cane plantations...
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