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Roadmap needed to ensure future water security, say World Water Forum delegates
2015-04-17 12:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Ensuring the world has a secure supply of water in the future is one of the many challenges associated with climate change and sustainability. Delegates of the World Water Forum, hosted by the World Water Council, have urged countries to deliver a roadmap on the issue. The seventh World Water Forum brought together over 300,000 visitors from 168 countries. Among the delegates were nine heads of State, 80 government ministers and 100 official national governments delegations. The Forum is held...
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ILWU delegates support ports agreement
2015-04-13 18:33:00| National Hog Farmer
By P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, D.C. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union caucus delegates are recommending to the ILWU membership that the labor agreement between the union and the Pacific Maritime Association be approved. read more
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Lima climate delegates generating 29,000 tonnes of CO2: Group
2014-12-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indian Express: Flights and hotels for the entire 9,000 delegates from 190 countries attending the UN climate conference in Lima will generate almost 29,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide, according to an estimate by a group campaigning on behalf of green energy developers. According to Project Developer Forum, the 29,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide is roughly equivalent to the emissions produced by the entire Pacific island state of Kiribati in six months. Benny Peiser, of the climate-sceptic Global Warming Policy...
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WMO Warns Lima Delegates 2014 May Be Hottest Year
2014-12-03 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As negotiators at the latest global climate meeting gather this week in Lima, Peru, to hammer out a new international agreement to limit emissions of the greenhouse gases fueling global warming, they are receiving a stark reminder of that warming. Global annual average temperature anomalies (relative to the 1961-1990 average) for 1950-2013, based on an average of the three data sets from NASA, NOAA and the U.K. Met Office. The January-to-October average is shown for 2014. The colouring of the...
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Delegates to Peru climate change conference to use "green" cars
2014-11-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: Some 10,000 delegates attending a UN climate change conference in the Peruvian capital of Lima next month will get around in ecological cars, the state Andina news agency reported Wednesday. A total of 171 electric and hybrid cars, worth 10.2 million U.S. dollars, will shuttle participants to the upcoming conference on Dec. 1-12, the report said. The use of the "green" cars is an example of Peru's efforts in cutting greenhouse gas emissions that accelerate global warming, Peruvian Foreign Minister...
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