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Pacific Islands leaders gather to address climate change
2015-09-08 01:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SBS: The proposals are some of the more contentious issues up for discussion by the 16 leaders at Pacific Island Forum in Port Moresby this week. Climate change is top of agenda at the annual summit ahead of the United Nation climate conference in Paris in December. Prime Minister Tony Abbott is due to arrive at the summit tomorrow and is expected to get a frosty reception because of Australias position on climate change. Listen: SBS Queensland Correspondent Stefan Armbruster speaking to SBS...
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Climate change talks our 'last chance' say Pacific islands
2015-09-07 20:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Pacific island nations under threat from rising seas have warned that climate talks in Paris represent the last chance to save them from obliteration. The warning came as a report castigated Australia and New Zealand for ignoring their small, impoverished neighbours calls for more robust action to cut carbon emissions. What we are talking about is survival, said Anote Tong, the President of Kiribati, a string of atolls barely 3ft (0.9m) above sea level. Its not about economic development......
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India: Sustainable Lifestyle Can Mitigate Climate Change Challenge: Prakash Javadekar
2015-09-07 18:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NDTV: India today hit out at the developed countries for adopting "extravagant" lifestyles compared to its "need based consumption" and asserted only "sustainable" lifestyles can mitigate the climate change challenge. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar also demanded that the lifestyle issue must be debated at the Paris climate change conference later this year. The minister said that Indian lifestyle is "against" such extravagant consumption and the country has an "ingrained" sense of responsibility...
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How Climate Change is Behind the Surge of Migrants to Europe
2015-09-07 17:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: More than 10,000 migrants and refugees traveled to Western Europe via Hungary over the weekend, fleeing conflict-ravaged and impoverished homelands in the hope of finding a more secure life abroad. Even as Europe wrestles over how to absorb the new arrivals, human rights activists and migration experts warn that the movement is not likely to slow anytime soon. Intractable wars, terror and poverty in the Middle East and beyond will continue to drive the surge. One additional factor, say scientists,...
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India launching campaign to publicise measures to fight climate change
2015-09-07 01:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: The government is launching an aggressive outreach campaign in the country and abroad to publicise all the measures India is taking to reduce carbon dioxide pollution and slow down the global rate of temperature rise, shedding its traditional defensive approach. The outreach campaign will kick off on Monday and continue all the way till the Paris climate summit in December, officials said. "India is taking many measures to deal with climate change, and specifically mitigation. The government...
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