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Worlds two greatest polluters now equals in U.S.-China climate deal
2014-11-13 02:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: After a domestic drubbing at home, where disenchanted voters made clear they had heard enough of his clarion call for "hope and change," U.S. President Barack Obama scored a rare foreign-policy triumph in the sweeping deal with China to slash greenhouse gas emissions. The pact may prove historic. It signals the world's sole superpower regards China as a key partner in global leadership rather than just one among several great powers. It provides the platform for Mr. Obama to carve out a...
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U.S. & China, world's biggest carbon polluters, announce new climate goals
2014-11-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The United States and China announced new goals for reducing their global warming pollution in the coming decades, with the U.S. ramping up its rate of decarbonization in five to 10 years and China promising that its carbon emissions will peak in the next 15 years. The announcements, which came at a multinational summit in Beijing Tuesday, made clear for the first time the commitments that the two biggest sources of greenhouse gases will make as part of the urgent United Nations negotiations....
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Philippines: Climate walkers' post-Yolanda message: make big polluters liable
2014-11-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InterAksyon: They made it as scheduled, Saturday morning, to Ground Zero of Yolanda's most devastating landfall, after walking over a month from Manila's Kilometer Zero at Rizal Park. As the Philippines marked the first anniversary of the super typhoon historic landfall in Tacloban City, over 500 Filipinos joined a solidarity event demanding climate justice, vowing to hold big polluters accountable for climate change impacts. Tacloban marks the end of a 1,000 kilometer, 40-day walk for climate justice organized...
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US power plants world's worst polluters: Report
2014-09-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: America's power plants are among the leading global sources of carbon emission than the entire economies of Russia, India, Japan or any other nation put together besides China, a latest report said on Friday. "US power plants are polluters on a global scale," said Elizabeth Ouzts of Environment America Research & Policy Center which released the report "America's Dirtiest Power Plants," ahead of the next weeks United Nations Climate Summit in New York. "It's time to stop ignoring our largest global...
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UK rewards polluters & locks up people who want to save the planet
2014-08-28 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: What if, instead of giving Marie Curie and Alexander Fleming Nobel prizes for their life-saving work on radiation and penicillin, they'd been thrown in jail? Or, instead of being awarded the Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur for his work on the germ theory of disease, Louis Pasteur was imprisoned like Napoleon on Elba? It would be perverse to return the favour of great, public works by depriving people of their freedom. Yet that is just what we're doing in Britain right now. The contributions...
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