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Pacific Islands leaders hope to convince world to move on climate change
2013-09-08 02:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Pacific island nations signed a declaration this week vowing to become climate leaders in the battle against the impact of greenhouse gases, but now theyll need to convince the rest of the world to follow in their footsteps. Members of the 15-nation Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) finalized the Majuro Declaration, named after the Marshall Islands' capital where they gathered this week, saying it should be a "game changer" in faltering efforts to address global warming. It commits the island nations...
How to convince Wall Street to invest in energy efficiency
2013-08-26 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In the depths of the Great Recession three years ago, California's chief fiscal officer John Chiang gathered his deputies and posed a question: "Is there any way we can put capital on the ground in California to put people back to work in ways that would make sense for the long term?" After some debate, they settled on what they called "the holy grail" energy efficiency. Retrofit projects would employ many of the 100,000 construction workers looking for work and put money into the pockets of...
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How To Convince Republicans To Support A Carbon Tax
2013-07-08 16:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Insider: Just 44% of Republicans think there is "solid evidence" of climate change, according to a March Pew poll. Another poll this spring found 58% of Republicans think climate change is a "hoax." Yet the R Street Institute, a free-market think tank, hopes to rally conservatives to support a carbon tax as an alternative to regulatory approaches being implemented by the Obama Administration. Reihan Salam, Senior Fellow at R Street, sat down with me to discuss how you sell a carbon tax to a group of...
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Convince More Clients by Sharing Your Successes
2013-06-07 03:32:26| FlowerChat Community - by RKFdomains.com
Forum: Blooming Banter Posted By: Gina B Kellogg Post Time: 6th June 2013 at 08:34 PM
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Islands struggle to convince UN Security Council that climate change is a security threat
2013-02-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Marshall Islands and other low-lying island nations appealed to the U.N. Security Council on Friday to recognize climate change as an international security threat that jeopardizes their very survival. Tony deBrum, a minister and assistant to the Marshall Islands president, said the island nations are facing opposition from Security Council permanent members Russia and China and a group of more than 130 mainly developing nations, which argue that the U.N.'s most powerful body is the wrong...
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