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Ahead of COP21, climate-change activists prepare to march on London
2015-11-28 13:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EuroNews: Activists in London are preparing for Sunday`s (November 29) People`s March for Climate, Justice and Jobs. The rally in the English capital is scheduled to take place on the eve of the COP21 international climate change conference in Paris. Its aim is to find a mechanism to limit global temperature increases to two degrees Celsius. "We hold those politicians to account" French President François Hollande has insisted the agreement reached at the conference must be legally-binding. Neil...
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Trudeau to press climate-change agenda at Commonwealth meeting
2015-11-26 22:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Post: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has landed in Malta for a meeting of leaders of the Commonwealth, an organization facing an internal crisis, concerns over Indias climate commitments, and some troubling questions about a top contender for secretary-general. Trudeau was to hold a bilateral meeting late Thursday with Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, before the biennial Commonwealth summit officially gets underway on Friday. The 53 member countries representing about 2.3 billion people will...
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Climate-change caused displacement must be discussed in Paris climate summit
2015-11-14 09:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BDNews24: Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque has lamented that the issue of displacement still remains "a taboo' in the international climate talks. "Bangladesh, along with some other countries, is at the forefront of this debate," he said on Saturday, ahead of the Paris climate summit. Displacement is globally considered a national issue, so those displaced due to climate change are neither defined as refugees nor eligible for international aid. Bangladesh, where thousands face displacement every...
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'Atmosphere of Hope': a primer for climate-change solutions
2015-11-08 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Times: Atlantic Monthly Press, 245 pp., $27 When Australian scientist Tim Flannery published 2003s The Weather Makers it was acclaimed as one of the earliest and more important books on climate change. A dozen years later he returns to the subject, examining what we have learned, what we have attempted to do to address the issue, and what we can do to solve what is arguably the most important environmental crisis facing humanity. As Flannery writes: Can our desire to overcome it [the climate crisis]...
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Investigate climate-change deniers? Retired UW profs part of flap
2015-11-07 01:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Times: Two retired University of Washington professors were among a group of 20 scientists that recently urged the Obama administration to launch federal racketeering investigations of corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change. John M. Wallace and Edward Sarachik, professors emeriti of the UWs department of atmospheric sciences, signed a letter dated Sept. 1 that asked the administration to use the Racketeer-Influenced and...
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