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Kerry compares climate change to fight against Ebola and Isis as thousands march around world
2014-09-21 20:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: More than 300,000 marchers flooded the streets of New York on Sunday in the largest climate change march in history, vaulting the environmental threat to the top of the global agenda. On a day of 2,700 simultaneous climate events from Melbourne to Manhattan, the US secretary of state, John Kerry, reinforced the calls from the streets for action by calling on world leaders to take the threat of climate change as seriously as Isis or Ebola. Organisers had called the day of protests in order to...
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UN Chief Takes Part in Mass March over Climate Change
2014-09-21 20:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CRI: Street protests demanding urgent action on climate change have been taking place around the world, with marches reported in more than 2,000 locations. It comes ahead of the UN climate summit in New York this week. Huge demonstrations have been taking place in Australia and Europe. In Manhattan, tens of thousands of people took part in a march. UN chief Ban Ki-moon was among them. "I am overwhelmed by such a strong power and energy and voice of people. I hope this voice will be truly reflected...
Thousands protest climate change at worldwide rallies
2014-09-21 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Tens of thousands of people marched in New York and across the globe on Sunday, joined by celebrities and political leaders to demand urgent action to stem climate change. Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, US former vice president turned advocate Al Gore, UN chief Ban Ki-moon and New York mayor Bill de Blasio marched down Sixth Avenue in what organizers hoped would be the largest such protest in history. In London, an estimated 40,000 people paraded past Trafalgar Square and the Houses of...
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Marchers sound call for climate change action
2014-09-21 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Tens of thousands of people marched through Manhattan sounding an urgent call for action to reverse global climate change Sunday. One marcher's sign read "cut your emissions or you'll sleep with the fishes." The "People's Climate March" in New York was billed as the largest of several protests held around the world two days before the start of the United Nations' Climate Summit. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon walked with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore along the two-and-a-half mile route....
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People's Climate march: 'Act now on climate change'
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: It promises to be an unparalleled demonstration of the worlds fury at its leaders continued failure to tackle climate change: an unprecedented statement by hundreds of thousands of people. Today, and for the next two days, before a key meeting on climate change at the UN in New York, protesters will take to the streets, from Papua New Guinea to central London. Campaigners say the cost of climate change estimated at 650 million people affected, 112,000 lives lost, hundreds of billions of...
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