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Gore lauds Cuomo for joining climate change pact
2015-10-09 02:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: In his second climate speech in a week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo stood with former Vice President Al Gore to announce New York will participate in a global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and keep global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius. "We know what needs to be done, we just need the political will to do it," Cuomo told a standing-room only crowd at Columbia's Lerner Auditorium. "We are well underway." Cuomo signed the "Under 2 MOU" -- a pact of states, cities and provinces...
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Twenty nation vulnerable climate change form action group
2015-10-08 23:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Twenty of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, from the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan to the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, formed a new financial group on Thursday to press for tougher action to curb global warming. Draft documents for a meeting of finance ministers in Lima, Peru and seen by Reuters, said the 20 represented 700 million people in low- and middle-income nations that were arid, landlocked, mountainous or vulnerable to rising sea levels. The Vulnerable 20 (V20) group's...
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Exxon business ambition collided with climate change under a distant sea
2015-10-08 19:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: In 1980, as Exxon Corp. set out to develop one of the world's largest deposits of natural gas, it found itself facing an unfamiliar risk: the project would emit immense amounts of carbon dioxide, adding to the looming threat of climate change. The problem cropped up shortly after Exxon signed a contract with the Indonesian state oil company to exploit the Natuna gas field in the South China Seabig enough to supply the blossoming markets of Japan, Taiwan and Korea with liquefied natural gas into...
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Cruz, Sierra Club chief get hot over climate change at hearing
2015-10-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: A Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing yesterday on the topic of federal regulations and their impact on minority communities devolved into a standoff over the existence of climate change -- with neither Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) nor Sierra Club President Aaron Mair willing to budge from their respective positions. The debate erupted during a hearing of the Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts, when Cruz questioned Mair about global warming. The 10-minute...
California enacts monumental climate change goals
2015-10-08 15:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: California already has some of the toughest air quality standards in the world, but Gov. Jerry Brown still isnt satisfied. On Wednesday, Mr. Brown committed the state to ambitious climate change goals, including doubling the energy-efficiency of existing buildings and relying on renewable energy for 50 percent of electricity use by 2030. Brown also tried to lobby for a measure to reduce petroleum use by half within the next 15 years; a measure that ultimately failed due to intense opposition from...
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