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Climate change is a security threat. Make it a foreign policy priority
2015-07-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In March of this year, researchers at U.C. Santa Barbara and Columbia published a paper linking climate change and extreme drought to the Syrian Civil War. It wasnt the first time that scientists and economists had connected the dots between climate and violent conflict. It wasnt even the first time that scientists had connected the dots between climate and conflict in Syria. For Syria, wrote the authors, a country marked by poor governance and unsustainable agricultural and environmental policies,...
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Terror, climate change biggest challenge world: Modi in Turkmenistan
2015-07-11 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday termed terrorism and climate change as the biggest problems faced by the world saying the solutions to these can be found in Mahatma Gandhi's life and ideals. "The world has two biggest problems today. One is terrorism and the second is climate change. The solution to both these problems can be found in Mahatama Gandhi's life and his ideals," Modi said in Turkmenistan's capital. READ ALSO: PM Modi hails 'long-standing' ties between Turkmenistan, India...
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Beijing Finally Getting Serious About Climate Change
2015-07-11 15:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Foreign Policy: As the worlds largest emitter of greenhouse gases, China has made a number moves in the past year to reduce emissions and clean up its environment. Most recently, on June 30, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said China would reduce its carbon intensity, the amount of carbon dioxide emitted per unit of GDP, by 60 to 65 percent of 2005 levels by 2030. The pledge comes ahead of the U.N. climate change summit to be held in Paris later this year. Li also reiterated that renewable energy should make up 20 percent...
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Climate change boosts value of Prairie farms
2015-07-11 10:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Winnipeg Free Press: Jeff Rubin, the former chief economist for CIBC World Markets-turned-bestselling author, knows all about adaptation. His first book, Why Your World Is About To Get a Whole Lot Smaller grabbed international attention with predictions that world oil prices would climb to more than $200 a barrel by 2012, forcing a rethink of almost every economic driver in industrialized nations. Well, that didn't happen. On the contrary, oil prices have dropped so precipitously that further development of Canada's...
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Obama administration seeks Latino help fight climate change
2015-07-11 02:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salt Lake Tribune: Latinos should join the Obama administration's fight against global warming because they are among those it hurts the most, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said Friday in a Salt Lake City speech. She especially sought Latino support for a proposed rule that McCarthy vowed to put in place later this year that would require a 30 percent reduction in carbon emissions from the nation's power plants by 2030. Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. Chris Stewart, both R-Utah, have said...
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