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World Bank releases damning report climate change
2014-11-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Times: The extent of climate change resulting from human activities has gone beyond a point of 'no return' and the abnormalities, according to a new World Bank report released today. Experts will find these findings damning but it's exactly what scientists have been warning of for a long time and the poorest countries, majority of them from Africa, are set to suffer most from this new reality. "Today's report confirms what scientists have been saying - past emissions have set an unavoidable course to...
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World Bank: No Matter What Governments Do Big Climate Change Coming
2014-11-24 05:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Some future impacts of climate change, such as more extremes of heat and sea level rise, are unavoidable even if governments act fast to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the World Bank said on Sunday. Past and predicted emissions from power plants, factories and cars have locked the globe on a path towards an average temperature rise of almost 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times by 2050, it said. "This means that climate change impacts such as extreme heat events may now...
European Investment Bank Agrees GBP 168 Million Backing for Lincs Offshore Transmission Connection
2014-11-24 02:55:00| Transmission & Distribution World
The European Investment Bank has agreed to provide GBP 168 million for a new connection between the Lincs offshore wind farm and the UK national transmission network. read more
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World bank to focus future investment on clean energy
2014-11-23 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The World Bank will invest heavily in clean energy and only fund coal projects in circumstances of extreme need because climate change will undermine efforts to eliminate extreme poverty, says its president Jim Yong Kim. Talking ahead of a UN climate summit in Peru next month, Kim said he was alarmed by World Bank-commissioned research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, which said that as a result of past greenhouse gas emissions the world is condemned to unprecedented...
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Extreme weather 'could become normal' warns World Bank report
2014-11-23 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Extreme weather events currently only seen once in hundreds of years, if ever, could become the "new climate normal' as a result of global warming, scientists have warned. Frequent heat waves and other weather extremes may already be unavoidable, creating a "world of increased risks and instability,' a World Bank Group report said. The consequences for development would be severe as crop yields decline, water resources shift, sea levels rise and the livelihoods of millions of people are put...
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