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Periled by climate change, Marshall Islands makes carbon pledge
2015-07-19 16:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The Marshall Islands, a small island country at high risk of climate change-induced sea level rise, vowed Sunday to cut greenhouse gas emissions by a third within a decade. In a pledge to be officially filed with the UN next week, the sparsely populated cluster of Pacific atolls becomes the first small island nation to submit a carbon-cutting pledge ahead of a year-end conference in Paris tasked with producing a world climate pact. It is also among the first developing country to commit to...
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China makes carbon pledge ahead of Paris climate change summit
2015-06-30 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: China will aim to cut its greenhouse gas emissions per unit of gross domestic product by 60-65% from 2005 levels under a plan submitted to the United Nations ahead of crucial climate change talks in Paris later this year. The pledge has been eagerly awaited as the country is the worlds largest carbon emitter. China said it would increase the share of non-fossil fuels as part of its primary energy consumption to about 20% by 2030, and peak emissions by around the same point, though it would...
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How climate change makes the world more violent
2015-05-21 14:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Natural scientists agree that the climate is changing and that humans bear some of the blame. Social scientists are now attempting to assess the economic and political price societies are likely to pay for turning up our planets thermostat. The security policy community is especially eager for an answer. In the academy, the debate over climate change and its security implications gained momentum after researchers from Stanford, the University of California Berkeley, New York University, and Harvard...
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Climate Change Makes Droughts in Australia Worse
2015-04-05 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change is making drought conditions in southwest and southeast Australia worse, with serious ramifications for people's health and the agriculture industry, a new paper has warned. The Climate Council report says projected decreases in average rainfall are linked to reduced agricultural productivity and increased suicide risk in rural areas. The Climate Council report states that since the mid-1990s, southeast Australia has experienced a 15 percent drop in rainfall during late autumn and...
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Kimberly-Clark makes pension change to save $2.5B
2015-02-23 19:24:11| Paper - Topix.net
Transferring responsibility for its pension benefit payments will save Kimberly-Clark Corp. around $2.5 billion without hurting the company's financial outlook, the Irving-based company said Monday in a press release. Kimberly-Clark said it will transfer the responsibility for its U.S. employees' pension payments to Prudential Insurance Co.
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