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Farmer sues Pakistan's government to demand action on climate change
2015-11-16 08:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Asghar Leghari had had enough. The farmer was tired of watching his family fight against the unpredictable weather that threatened their crops in Rahim Yar Khan District, in Pakistans South Punjab region. He was also disheartened by the fates of many small-scale farmers around him, whose struggles with weather shifts have ended in poverty. And he was angry at Pakistans seeming inability to protect its people against the devastating effects of climate change. So Leghari decided there was only...
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French government vows to push on with Paris climate summit: If not, terrorism wins
2015-11-15 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The French government vowed to push on with the United Nations Climate summit in Paris this month and will boost security for the more than 120 world leaders traveling to a city reeling from a deadly terrorist attack. It will go ahead with reinforced security measures, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said in Vienna on Nov. 14, a day after gunmen killed as many as 129 people in Paris. This is an absolutely necessary step in the battle against climate change and of course it will take...
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Canadian government moves forward on commitment to resettle Syrian refugees
2015-11-14 10:09:08| Telecom - Topix.net
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau, place a wreath Wednesday during the Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa. The new Liberal government is advancing its commitment to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees in Canada by the end of the year.
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Australia: Turnbull government spends big on emissions cuts, but falls short on targets: Critics
2015-11-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: Almost half the money the Turnbull government has set aside to pay for emissions cuts has now been committed, after a further $557 million was spent under the second auction of its emissions reduction fund. But the auction results that were released on Thursday have again sparked criticism from policy observers, who said they showed the fund would achieve only a small proportion of the emissions cuts needed to meet Australia's international climate targets. Projects that won contracts under the...
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Government Requests for Facebook User Data Up 18 Percent
2015-11-13 01:02:16| PC Magazine Security Product Guide
The volume of appeals for account data across all countries grew 18 percent—from 35,051 to 41,214—over one year.
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