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Climate change may raise disease burden in South Asian cities
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Recorder: South Asian cities are facing problems of decaying environment which include hazardous levels of air and water pollution and insufficient solid waste management. According to a report on Human Development in South Asia 2014, "Urbanisation: Challenges and Opportunities," these environmental threats have deteriorated the sustainability and liveability of cities in South Asia, besides the situation is being compounded by global warming. The report said: "South Asia is one of the least urbanised regions...
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"Climate change is undermining rights of every child": UNICEF official
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: "Climate change is really undermining the rights of every child today and the children of tomorrow," Alex Heikens, a senior official with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), told Xinhua in an interview,just a few days before opening of the UN climate change summit. The UN summit will start at United Nations Headquarters in New York on Sept. 23 and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be the host. "The session is really about bringing the voices of marginalized people, particularly children,...
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Desmond Tutu: Nobody should profit from climate change suffering
2014-09-21 15:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: In an impassioned plea for action on climate change, the Nobel peace prize winner Desmond Tutu has called for an apartheid-style boycott of fossil fuel firms. In an article written for the Observer ahead of a crucial UN climate summit Tutu, a leader of the campaign that defeated apartheid in South Africa, calls on world leaders to curb greenhouse gas emissions But to build a populist campaign pressuring politicians to do so, Tutu urges investors to ditch their holdings in the fossil fuel companies...
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New York City Prepares to Host Climate Change March
2014-09-21 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: After months of planning, the Peoples Climate March is set to roll through a large swath of Midtown Manhattan on Sunday, taking public frustration over stalled efforts to curb carbon emissions to the streets in a noisy, vivid display of unity. At 11:30 a.m., the march is scheduled to begin moving east along 59th Street from Columbus Circle, proceeding along a circuitous, two-mile route, and drawing labor and immigrant groups, students and politicians, scientists and religious leaders. The march...
Massive NYC march aims focus world's eyes climate change
2014-09-21 13:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: World leaders including U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon were set to join farmers, fishermen, children and others in a massive demonstration on Sunday to demand action on climate change. Organizers are expecting 100,000 to join the People's Climate March in midtown Manhattan ahead of this week's U.N. General Assembly, which brings together 120 world leaders to discuss reducing carbon emissions that threaten the environment. The gathering will include celebrities such as musician Sting, scientists...
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