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UK to spend 5.8bn on tackling climate change in poor countries
2015-09-27 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Almost 6bn of the UKs foreign aid budget will be spent on tackling climate change in poor countries over the next five years, David Cameron has said, as Britain steps up its contributions by 50% to help meet international targets. The prime minister will unveil the UKs offer at the United Nations general assembly, before crucial international climate change talks in Paris in December where nations are expected to collectively pledge $100bn (66bn) a year by 2020. The UKs promise of 5.8bn...
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Canada: New Democrat climate change plan allow provinces to opt out
2015-09-27 17:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Global News: The NDP is releasing a climate change plan that would allow provinces to opt out if their efforts to minimize carbon emissions are as good or better than those of the federal government. The party says in its plan that money Ottawa would raise from carbon pricing would go to the provinces for reinvesting in further efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Party leader Tom Mulcair, who is releasing his plan in Toronto on Sunday, has said Canada`s climate record has fallen behind under the...
Pope Francis call to action on climate change
2015-09-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Pope Francis covered a lot of moral ground in his speech to the United Nations on Friday, as the world body marks its 70th anniversary. He spoke of war and peace, nuclear arms control, human dignity, social justice, poverty, girls education, religious freedom, drug trafficking and more. He also touched on an overarching theme the future of the Earth itself threatened as it is by climate change driven by a selfish and boundless thirst for power and money, as he put it. In Franciss view,...
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Why isnt climate change bigger part Canada elections?
2015-09-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Global News: The economy, jobs, and immigration have loomed large in the federal election campaign. But where`s the environment? While each party has presented policies seeking to address climate change, they haven`t faced much scrutiny, said Jennifer Winter at the University of Calgary`s School of Public Policy. "I think the environment is really a secondary, even a tertiary issue in this election compared to the economy," she said. Winter examined each party`s climate policy and found them all short...
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Scientists are looking at riskier ways to reverse climate change
2015-09-27 14:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PRI: Our planet is heating up. Theres mostly consensus on whats causing global warming (we are), as well as how quickly we need to work to slow it down (very quickly). Now many climate scientists are coming together around a common goal: keep the planet from heating up more than two degrees Celsius. Thats the point at which wed see more and more droughts, ever-rising sea levels, and widespread wildlife extinctions. To achieve their ends, policy experts have focused on reducing greenhouse gas...
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