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Climate Change Will Hit Poor Countries Hardest, Study Shows
2015-08-24 12:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ethiopian Herald: Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment. Glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner. Effects that scientists had predicted in the past would result from global climate change are now occurring: loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise and longer, more intense heat waves. The potential future effects of global climate change include more frequent wildfires, longer...
Climate change is hurting poor countries right now. Why won't rich countries act?
2014-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Republic: All politics is local, Tip ONeill, the legendary Capitol Hill pol, used to say. He wasnt talking about the politics of climate change, but he might as well have been. Powerful governments around the world have failed to act in a significant way to fight climate change, and its pretty clear why: Their constituents dont feel in any real sense that climate change is affecting them locally. This is the fundamental inconvenient truth that advocates of tougher climate action face, and its underscored...
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Obama cant do a lot to help poor countries deal with climate change, but hes doing a little
2014-09-25 18:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The world was hoping for something grand from President Obama at Tuesdays U.N. Climate Summit. He offered grand words. But because his hands are tied by a recalcitrant Congress, he couldnt offer grand action. So he offered modest action instead. On Tuesday, to coincide with the summit, the Obama administration announced an executive order pertaining to climate change. Obama promoted it in his lofty speech in the U.N.s General Assembly Hall, saying, Im directing our federal agencies to begin...
U.S. wants poor and rich countries alike to cut emissions under next climate treaty
2014-02-13 17:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: If the U.S. gets its way, developing countries will need to roll up their sleeves and do more to slow down global warming. The Obama administration is taking the position that poor and rich countries alike should be legally obligated to reduce the amount of climate-changing pollution that they produce after 2020, when a new climate treaty is expected to take effect. The Kytoto Protocol approach, which saw rich countries but not poor ones compelled to rein in greenhouse gas pollution, is "clearly...
Poor Countries Push Rich Nations To Do More On Climate Change
2013-11-20 22:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Delegates to the U.N. climate change conference in Poland from many of the world's poorer nations are asking wealthier countries to pay compensation to the impoverished countries bearing the brunt of climate change. Melissa Block talks to Munjurul Hannan Khan, negotiator and spokesman for the Least Developed Countries Group about the tensions between rich and poor countries.
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