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Less US urgency at G-8 in call for European growth
2013-06-24 13:38:10| Beverages - Topix.net
In this May 19, 2012, file photo, President Barack Obama, third from left, participates in a luncheon at the G-8 Summit at Camp David, Md.
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Climate risk: UN says business response needs more urgency
2013-05-20 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Businesses are failing to protect their overseas supply chains despite being increasingly exposed to the risk of natural disasters, the UN will warn today. A new report by the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) and consultancy giant PwC says that while there is a growing awareness of the threat floods, drought and storms can pose to business operations, companies rarely share expertise on how to cope with extreme weather threats with each other or the public sector. Economic...
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Climate chief warns of 'urgency' as CO2 levels rise
2013-04-30 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The UN's climate chief called for urgency Monday as she opened a new round of global talks amid warnings that Earth-warming carbon dioxide levels were approaching a symbolic threshold never seen in human history. Data from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii have shown the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere to be at 399.72 parts per million (ppm), Christiana Figueres told climate negotiators in Bonn. "We are just about to cross the 400 ppm threshold," she said in a prepared speech that stressed...
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Urgency lacking when it comes to climate change
2013-04-22 08:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: Climate change is a worthy issue which most of us feel we should be deeply concerned about - but not just yet. In the cosy Western World, there is a distinct lack of urgency about the problem. We wrongly feel the impact of climate change on us is still generations away. We mistakenly assume that, for now, its main effect is on ice caps in arctic regions, the forests in Central America and the plains of Africa. But at the Hunger, Nutrition and Climate Justice conference at Dublin Castle last...
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Canada: Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver plays down urgency of climate change
2013-04-12 21:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: Just as one federal cabinet minister is urging a more sophisticated tone to the climate-change debate, a second cabinet minister finds himself trying to prove he is not a climate-change denier. Environment Minister Peter Kent this week said that while the federal government would never opt for a carbon-pricing scheme itself, it would be open minded about pricing arrangements set up by the provinces. That was a change in tone for Conservatives who have spent day after day attacking any kind...
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