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Head of UN climate change panel skips Nairobi meet amid sexual harassment allegations in India
2015-02-21 23:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Indian leader of the U.N.'s expert panel on climate change has pulled out of a key meeting in Nairobi while pledging to cooperate with New Delhi police investigating allegations of sexual harassment. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said its chairman, R.K. Pachauri, would skip next week's plenary session in the Kenyan capital "because of issues demanding his attention in India." While the organization refused to elaborate, Pachauri is being investigated after a 29-year-old...
RK Pachauri to skip Nairobi climate meet after woman complains of sexual harassment
2015-02-21 20:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deccan Chronicle: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC has said its chairman RK Pachauri has expressed his inability to go to Nairobi next week for chairing its plenary session in the wake of a complaint of sexual harassment against him. "The Chairman of the IPCC, Rajendra K Pachauri, has informed the IPCC that he will be unable to chair the plenary session of the IPCC in Nairobi next week because of issues demanding his attention in India," IPCC said in a statement in Delhi. This comes after...
Australia: Direct Action unlikely meet emissions target, says Climate Change Authority
2014-12-22 05:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The governments climate advisory body has delivered a stark assessment of the Coalitions policies, stating it was unlikely that its Direct Action policy would meet Australias 5% emissions reduction target and calling for the renewable energy target (RET) to remain intact. The Climate Change Authority, which the Coalition unsuccessfully attempted to abolish, has conducted two statutory reviews for the government: one on the RET and one on the carbon farming initiative (CFI). The existing...
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Meet the Senates New Climate Denial Caucus
2014-11-05 20:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: Well, folks, it wasnt such a great night on the climate action front. It looks like the millions of dollars that environmental philanthropist Tom Steyer invested in the midterms didnt buy much other than a fledgling political infrastructure to sock away for 2016. With Republicans now in control of the Senate, were likely to see a bill to push through the Keystone XL pipeline coming down the pike soon. And Mitch McConnell, probably the coal industrys biggest booster, retained his seat. In fact,...
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Meet Bill McKibben, man behind massive 'People's Climate March' rally
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: Bill McKibben wrote the first big book about global warming, a work he hoped would startle the world like a fire alarm. But the planet just kept on hurtling toward an overheated doom, he noticed. So twenty-five years later, hes come up with a shriller, more literal strategy for reform: actual alarms. At 1 p.m. on Sunday, after a scene-setting moment of silence, more than 100,000 activists are expected to use phones, whistles, horns, speakers and anything else with a decibel-level to make as much...