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Merkel in climate change fund call
2015-06-06 11:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BT: German chancellor Angela Merkel is calling for the G7 powers to throw their weight behind a pledge to find 100 billion dollars (65 billion) to help poor countries tackle climate change. Ms Merkel, who hosts the G7 summit starting on Sunday, cautioned against comparing the meeting with full-fledged climate negotiations, but said the world's leading industrial powers should send a signal ahead of a climate conference in Paris in December. Governments agreed in Copenhagen in 2009 to seek the funding...
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Real estate industry must embrace change, according to global futurist
2015-06-06 06:27:42| Real Estate - Topix.net
Global Futurist Jack Uldrich set the tone of the fourth annual Urban Land Institute Florida summit with an opening session on trends that will transform the state's economy "sooner rather than later." As technology in the business world continues to advance at a faster pace, embracing change is paramount for success, he said.
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Julie Bishop rejects Kofi Annan claim Australia a 'free-rider' on climate change
2015-06-06 04:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The foreign minister, Julie Bishop, has rejected claims by a panel headed by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan that Australia is a free-rider on climate change. Australia is one of four major offenders, with Canada, Japan and Russia, who are accused in the Africa Progress Panels 2015 report of appearing to have withdrawn from attempts to tackle climate change. With one of the worlds highest levels of per capita emissions, Australia has gone from leadership to free-rider status in...
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How mankind blew the fight against climate change
2015-06-06 01:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: If historians someday need to explain how mankind managed to blow the fight against climate change, they need only point to last months shareholder meeting at Exxon Mobil headquarters in Dallas. The meeting came two days after Texas smashed old rainfall records -- almost doubled them, in some cases -- and as authorities were still searching for families swept away after rivers crested many feet beyond their previous records. As Exxon Mobils Rex Tillerson -- the highest-paid chief executive of...
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World Environment Day: UN Asks Us Each for One Change
2015-06-05 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Many of the Earth`s ecosystems are approaching "critical tipping points," the United Nations warned today, World Environment Day. The world body accompanied the warning with an invitation to each of the planet`s 7.247 billion plus people to mark the day by making one change towards more responsible consumption of resources, such as flying with e-tickets instead of paper tickets or riding a bike to work. "Humanity continues to consume far more natural resources than the planet can sustainably provide....
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